Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Poland

Early Sunday morning the Workshoppers returned from their Journey to Poland. Below is a schedule of our Journey and some pictures. Please check back soon for some chanichim perspectives from the Journey.


Listening to the story of a Righteous Among the Nations, Galicia Museum, Krakow. 


Entering Birkenau. 


The tekkes (ceremony) at Majdanek, near Lublin.


At one of the small remaining pieces of the wall of the Warsaw Ghetto.


All of Workshop 63 at Grochow, the site of the former hachshara (training) farm of the halutzic movements.


The synagogue in the shtetl of Tykochin.


Nora telling the story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, led by the youth movements, including Dror.


Preparing for our final tekkes, at the Rapaport Monument, Warsaw.


Workshop 63 final tekkes, Warsaw.


Sunday February 23

“Jewish Life and Dilemmas in Pre-War Poland”
Depart Israel LOT 152 06:00

Arrive Warsaw

Drive to Krakow (Lunch on the way)

The Old Jewish Quarter of Kazimisch
        Altschul Synagogue
        Isaac Synagogue
       Temple Synagogue
       Rama Synagogue

Galicia museum
           Speech from a Righteous Gentile

Overnight: Krakow
Monday February 24th

“The Concentration Camp: Dehumanization”
Auschwitz Bikenau

Memorial Ceremony (planned by Workshoppers)

Overnight: Krakow
Tuesday February 25th

“Breaking and Making Communities: Inside the Ghetto”
Plaszow Labour Camp

Krakow Ghetto

Oscar Schindler's Factory

Zigganeria Cafe and the Act of Rebellion

Lunch in Suikintze Central Market

Overnight: Lublin
Wednesday February 26th

“Inside the Nazi World”   
Walking tour of Nazi HQ and Aryan Lublin

Lublin Yeshiva

Majdanek Camp

Memorial Ceremony (planned by Workshoppers)

Overnight: Warsaw
Thursday February 27th

“The Jewish Leadership and the Dilemmas of the Holocaust”
Walking Tour of Warsaw Ghetto

Jewish Cemetery of Warsaw

Krashinksi Gardens

Polish Monument to the Uprising

Dzielna 34: the home of the Dror Movement

Overnight Warsaw
Friday February 28th

“Destruction of Communities”

Tzkyotzin Shtetl: Synagogue and Market Square

Lopochova Forest: the site of the murder of Tzkyotzin residents

Treblinka Memorial Site

Overnight: Warsaw
Saturday February 29th

“The Youth Movement and the Uprising”
Grochov: the Youth Movement Training Farm

Janusz Korszak House


Walking Path to Heroism: the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
           Umshlagplatz
           Zamenhoff
           Mila 18

Closing Ceremony at Rappaport Memorial

Dinner and Polish Folklore

Depart Warsaw LOT 151   22:50
Sunday March 1st
Arrive in Israel 03:35

Return to Kaveret Houses

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