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May 5, 2026, 6:16 AM

What I Learned as a Venezuelan When Iran War Sent Me To Poland Instead of Israel

Danna Matheus reporting from Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum.

WARSAW, Poland — Days before a planned media tour in Israel, Iranian rockets lit up the sky and forced a sudden change of course. Instead of reporting from Tel Aviv, I found myself in Auschwitz. As a non-Jewish Venezuelan American,...

About Me

Danna Matheus is a Broadcast Journalism senior at the University of Maryland. She is a Digital News Team Intern at Telemundo 44 in Washington, D.C. and a Fuente Latina Reporting Fellow.