{"id":1102,"date":"2019-11-21T06:57:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T11:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2025-08-18T15:07:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:07:36","slug":"august-september-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/august-september-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"August-September 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been an incredible summer of travel, exploration, lectures as well as visits to old places, where I had new experiences.<\/p>\n<p>When University of Rochester asked me to be their Scholar in Residence for their Eastern European trip, I knew it would be a good experience. I did not imagine what a great experience it would be! We traveled to Poland (Warsaw, Krakow and Auschwitz), to Hungary (Budapest), to Austria (Vienna) and to the Czech Republic (Prague). In each location, I delivered lectures on subjects as varied as the sweep of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to topics as specific as the early life of Raoul Wallenberg, which set the pattern for his courageous wartime actions. In addition to the incredible places we visited, I was accompanied by a group of intelligent, interesting and terrific travelers, who were all connected to the University of Rochester. It was a memorable experience with wonderful people visiting incredibly interesting places.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/P1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/P1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/P1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/P1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/P1-rotated.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Here is the University of Rochester alumni group outside the iconic watchtower at Auschwitz-Birkenau<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/P2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/P2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/P2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/P2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/P2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/P2.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Cemetery at Terezin, considered a \u2018Model Camp\u2019 (outside of Prague)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/P3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/P3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/P3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/P3-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/P3-rotated.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Joyce Donsky, tour participant (and close friend), placing pebble at the Raoul Wallenberg memorial in Budapest<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been an incredible summer of travel, exploration, lectures as well as visits to old places, where I had new experiences. When University of Rochester asked me to be their Scholar in Residence for their Eastern European trip, I knew it would be a good experience. I did not imagine what a great experience it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fromann","category-previous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}