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JERUSALEM, Israel\u00a0\u2013\u00a0During this time of growing antisemitism, Regent University’s Israel Institute is educating students about how the Jewish people lived before\u00a0World War II. As part of the course, the students took a recent trip to Poland<\/p>\n
Organizers chose Poland to give the Institute for Israel Studies students a key historical perspective. After Poland, the students were also going to visit Israel.<\/p>\n
Regent University Dean of the Robertson School of Government Michele Bachmann explained, “We would start with Poland…so the students could see Jewish life in Europe and what it was like leading up to the Holocaust prior to World War II. And then we wanted to take them to Israel afterwards, so you could see some of Israel’s past and Israel’s present, connecting the Jewish people to the situation for them in Israel today in a way that no one could have planned.”<\/p>\n
The students didn’t make it to Israel because of the Iran war, so Bachmann extended their time in Poland.<\/p>\n
She told\u00a0CBN News,\u00a0<\/em>Part of that included a trip to one of the death camps called Majdanek.\u00a0And when we were there, something happened that none of us expected.”<\/p>\n At the top of a hill at Majdanek are ashes of the Jews killed there, and from that vantage point, those condemned to death could have looked down at ongoing life in their hometown of Lublin.\u00a0<\/p>\n “In real time we saw death and life during the time when they were condemned to die in this death camp,” Bachmann recalled. “So we were talking about the past, but what we saw was also contemporary because the (Iran) war was ongoing in Israel.”<\/p>\n ***Please sign up for\u00a0CBN Newsletters\u00a0and download the\u00a0CBN News app\u00a0to ensure you\u00a0receive the latest news from a Christian perspective.***<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n While traveling to the Polish sites, as\u00a0evidence of the current\u00a0situation in Israel, Bachmann would receive electronic notifications when the Jewish state came under missile attacks.<\/p>\n She noted, “The\u00a0entire time when we went up to look at this memorial of the ashes of all of the Jews, my Apple Watch was blowing up. The sound was going off one after another because missiles were coming in. And all of a sudden, the Holy Spirit just spoke to my mind that said, ‘See, nothing’s changed. It’s the same.'”<\/p>\n As part of the gravesite visit, Michael Eglash, co-founder of IsraelAmbassadors.com,\u00a0prayed the Jewish Kaddish prayer and then the group prayed for Israel’s safety in the attack.<\/p>\n Regent student Madison Hardiman shared how this moment affected their lives.<\/p>\n “There’s a whole city with skyscrapers and where people lived, even back then. There’s no way that they (the Poles) didn’t know something was going on\u00a0because Majdanek was on a hill, and they chose to say nothing.”<\/p>\n She added, “And your phones were going off constantly, and it just shows that it’s still happening today. We’re still seeing that same persecution against the Jewish people, whether it be through gas chambers then\u00a0(or) now, it’s rockets”<\/p>\n Abigail Thomas, another student, observed, “When\u00a0we’re standing there, and we’re looking at the place where 18,000 Jews died in one day, and we were getting alerts on Dean Bachman’s phone about the missiles coming into Israel\u00a0\u2013 and it showed both, in one sense, the cruelty of what happened with the Holocaust and how many people died. And just the way it was enacted was unimaginable. But also the prevalence of it continuing to today.”<\/p>\n Thomas said the trip pointed her toward the future.<\/p>\n “Walking away from it was something that I knew that I’m walking away with a mission. And it’s not just something that I’ve learned. It’s something I need to carry out in my life. That support for Israel,\u00a0and just sharing my story of being able to go…\u00a0my life continues\u00a0just to share the true reasons why we must support Israel and what truly happened during the Holocaust.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JERUSALEM, Israel\u00a0\u2013\u00a0During this time of growing antisemitism, Regent University’s Israel Institute is educating students about how the Jewish people lived before\u00a0World War II. As part of the course, the students took a recent trip to Poland Organizers chose Poland to give the Institute for Israel Studies students a key historical perspective. 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