{"id":190,"date":"2019-07-12T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvfa.tamu.edu\/hopelife\/?p=190"},"modified":"2023-07-19T10:57:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T15:57:52","slug":"choreographers-travel-to-new-york-and-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pvfa.tamu.edu\/hopelife\/news\/2019\/07\/choreographers-travel-to-new-york-and-washington-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Choreographers travel to New York and Washington DC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"general-slider\">\n\t<div class=\"general-slider__inner\" aria-label=\"Image carousel. 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The bottom reads \u201cUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum.\u201d\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/pvfa.tamu.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2023\/07\/DC-ID-lbox-800x536-27211D.jpeg\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"t-body-small general-slider-item__text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<li class=\"general-slider-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"general-slider-item__img-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"general-slider-item__img\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"A pamphlet reading \u201cfirst person. 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Both exhibits were moving, heartbreaking, emotional, unforgettable, and hopeful.&nbsp; We both learned something we didn\u2019t know.&nbsp; We each sat quietly for a long time afterwards just thinking and processing the information.&nbsp; It will take days, weeks, months to process everything we saw. We have been learning about the Holocaust for sometime now but somehow it is still difficult to grasp that people could do this to other people. There was so much deception. So many moving parts of the entire operation.&nbsp; It brings up the question again, how do we do it all justice in this work? How can we leave any of it out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was inspiring to hear the stories of the people who risked their lives to save others. Inspiring to hear the two survivors, Louis de Grott and Allan Firestone, during the&nbsp;<em>First Person Series<\/em>&nbsp;at the museum in DC. I am thankful that the museum added Daniel\u2019s story so children could perhaps begin to understand what had happened on some level. I am thankful for the all the people who helped in the Liberation and their stories we heard in the&nbsp;<em>American Witnesses<\/em>&nbsp;exhibit.&nbsp; This experience tells me to continue on and build this work;&nbsp;<em>But Where There\u2019s Hope, There\u2019s Life.&nbsp;<\/em>That we must never forget. That history must not repeat itself; never again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 Christine Bergeron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carisa and I traveled to Washington DC on July 15-18, 2019 to visit the United States Holocaust Museum.&nbsp; While there, we also took a train to New York to visit the Auschwitz exhibit on display at Museum for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvfa.tamu.edu\/hopelife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvfa.tamu.edu\/hopelife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvfa.tamu.edu\/hopelife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvfa.tamu.edu\/hopelife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvfa.tamu.edu\/hopelife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pvfa.tamu.edu\/hopelife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/pvfa.tamu.edu\/hopelife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvfa.tamu.edu\/hopelife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvfa.tamu.edu\/hopelife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvfa.tamu.edu\/hopelife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvfa.tamu.edu\/hopelife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}