It is difficult to talk with teenagers about the Holocaust in a way that is both sensitive and frank. But George Elbaum, a Warsaw-born Holocaust Survivor, who has met with School of Dialogue alumni in Błonie, Mszczonów and Grójec, knows how to captivate his young audience.

The author of “Neither Yesterdays, Nor Tomorrows. Vignettes from the Holocaust,” published in Polish with the help of Forum for Dialogue, moved his audience and inspired a lively Q&A session afterwards. So lively, in fact, that the meeting in Mszczonów took an hour more than was planned! Students lined up to have their copy of the book signed.

After reading that he likes sweets, the students from Grójec baked their visitor a Polish cheesecake, which he mentions in his book. The students in Błonie offered him handmade ceramic cups filled to the brim with marzipan – his favorite.

George Elbaum was visiting Poland in the company of his wife and son, who took part in the Jewish tour of Grójec prepared by the students in the School of Dialogue program.