Earlier this spring, students from Kathy Robinson's Holocaust and Genocide Studies class had the opportunity to travel to Washington, D.C. to visit the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. This is the 5th year that SCTCC students have been able to join a diverse group of over 180 other college students, community leaders, and others from Minnesota and the Dakotas on the trip. This year Mary Beth Torborg, SCTCC Communications instructor, was able to join and assist.
With a generous grant from a community member and sponsorships from the Jewish Community Relations Council, the Minnesota Vikings, and St. Cloud State Holocaust and Genocide Center, Robinson was able to take 10 students on this immersive, annual, one-day trip.
Visiting the museum in person is a perfect expansion of the content covered in the class. One student shared that “Seeing the amount of shoes and belongings at the museum, puts a better perspective for me of how many people were victims of the Holocaust. It was eerie to see and walk on the bricks from the ghettos and see how small the cattle cars were that hundreds of people were put into for days. This trip was something I’d never do or set out to go see on my own, so thank you for doing the trip”.
One unexpected highlight of the trip was seeing the Presidential Motorcade and King Charles.
