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Quanece Williams
  • History and Political Science
  • Class of 2016
  • Bridgeport, CT

Eastern Student Quanece Williams of Bridgeport Travels to Europe for Global Field Course

2015 Jun 24

A number of students from Eastern Connecticut State University recently traveled to Europe as part of Communication Professor Cesar Beltran's course "The Nazi Aftermath in Central Europe: History, the Media and the Holocaust." Quanece Williams '15 of Bridgeport participated in the course and the related travel. Williams's major is History.

The course, offered as one of Eastern's global field courses, sought to analyze the historical, political, cultural and economic effects that World War II and the Holocaust had, and continue to have, today. In an effort to analyze how past conflicts have shaped communication throughout Europe, the group traveled to Poland, Austria and Hungary.

By visiting Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Vienna's Centropa Institute and Budapest's Central European University, as well as meeting with U.S. Embassy officials, the students obtained a much better understanding of the widespread effects that the Holocaust had throughout Europe. They also went to Brody Studios, an arts club in Budapest, where esteemed television personality, author and historian Tessa Dunlop spoke about the "Enigma" machine, which was used to decipher codes during World War II.

The group also traveled to Auschwitz-Birkenau, infamous concentration camp and location of countless atrocities, in addition to other historic and cultural landmarks, including Wawel Castle in Krakow, the Imperial Ring in Vienna and the Castle District of Budapest.