Czech Republic
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Read more: Churches, Mines, and More!Today, we went to Kutna Hora and we saw a variety of different sights including the bone church, St. Barbara’s Cathedral, a silver mine, and…
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Read more: Sedlec, St. Barbara’s, and SilverToday, after another early start, we visited the town of Kutna Hora. Located about an hour and half east of Prague, this town was the…
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Read more: Kutná HoraToday was the tour of the silver mining town, Kutná Hora. Due to their profitable silver deposits, they were able to build grand structures. One…
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Read more: The Strongest Resilience Amongst the Greatest TragedyIn my 20 years of life I have never witnessed anything like the history of horrors I saw today. At the Terezín small and large…
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Read more: Terezin
Today we went to Terezin in the Northwestern part of the country near the border with Germany. It was a much more serious and heavy…
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Read more: Czeching out Czech CultureToday was a day of remembering and remorse for the horrible living conditions that certain groups of people faced during the holocaust. We took a…
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Read more: TerezinToday was one of the more sobering days of our time in the Czech Republic. We visited Terezín, a former military garrison that was repurposed…
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Read more: Religious ResilienceToday, we visited the Terezin Fortress. This visit consisted of both the small fortress and the large, or main, fortress. The fortress was constructed at…
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Read more: Nicht Frei, Niemals FreiAn hour north of Prague on the outskirts of the Sudetenland lies Terezín, an 18th century fortress named for Empress Maria Theresa who oversaw the…
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Read more: TerezinAfter visiting Terezin, my understanding of Czech resilience deepened significantly. Walking through the small fortress and learning about its use as a concentration camp, I…
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