When spending time in a public square in Wrocław, Poland, a group of around fifty young people walked as though they were in a parade, while chanting “extermination” regarding the situation in Gaza. Because of the proximity of the buildings in the square, their voices carried quite easily, but they lacked weight. Whether or not they realized it, or cared, they were a train ride away from one of Europe’s most sobering sites; it wasn’t just Auschwitz that scarred Polish soil.
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Nearby, you can find the Racławice Panorama, which wraps you in 1794, when the scythes of peasants joined the regulars of Kościuszko, fighting the Russians for the nation’s soil. The panoramic canvas, approximately 50 feet high by 375 feet long,
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