TRIP PORTION:
Sunday, May 12: Leave Norfolk. Arrive at the Norfolk Airport no later than 10:45 am.
United Airlines flight 4835 from Norfolk (ORF) to Chicago (ORD) 1:00pm to 2:35pm.
Lufthansa Airlines flight 431 from Chicago (ORD) to Frankfurt (FRA). Leave 4:00pm, arrive May 13 at 7:15am.
Lufthansa Airlines flight 1364 from Frankfurt (FRA) to Kraków (KRK). 8:30am-10:00am. Arrival at our hotel around noon on May 13. Meet transportation services to take us into Kraków
Monday, May 13
Airport transfer to Arrive Kraków. Check into Hotel Ester, Szeroka 20, Kraków,
http://hotel-ester.krakow.pl/en/
Walking tour of Krakow led by Dr. Finley
Evening—do what you like as needed.
Reading: Lehrer, Gruber, “Scenes from a Kraków Café; “Traveling Tschotschkes” from Jewish Poland Revisited. For more on the
Jewish quarter—Kazimierz see: https://www.inyourpocket.com/krakow/Kazimierz_70207f
Tuesday, May 14
Morning—Płaszów—former labor camp. Our guide will be Krzysztof Suszkiewicz. Meet Krzysztof in front of our hotel at Szeroka St. at 9:30 AM. Return to Kazimierz by 1:00.
Afternoon– Lecture with Dr. Gawron at 2:00 PM: Dr. Gawron is from the Institute for Jewish Studies at Jagiellonian University; For more on the Institute see:
Visit the Kraków JCC, around 4:00. Meet with Dr. Katarzyna Suszkiewicz.
Group Dinner in town at “Once upon a Time in Kazimierz” http://en.szeroka1.com/
We have a reservation at 7:30 sharp and we can’t be late!
Reading: Hayes, chapter 6
Wednesday, May 15
Morning/afternoon–Tour of Kraków and local synagogues conducted by Maciek Zabierowski, Learning and Special Projects Director with the Auschwitz Jewish Center. End at the Galicia Museum. Meet Maciek at 10am on Szeroka Street (right by our hotel) Lunch at Bagel Mama!
http://www.galiciajewishmuseum.org/en
Evening free
Reading: Cole, “Prologue” from Holocaust Landscapes
Thursday, May 16
8:45 AM SHARP: Leave Ester Hotel in Krakow and take Coach to Transfer to the Imperiale Hotel in Oświęcim (across the street from Auschwitz). https://hotelimperiale.pl/?lang=en
11am-12pm–Class at the Auschwitz Jewish Center
12-1pm–Tour of the AJC Museum.
3pm–Visit the Center for Dialogue and Prayer
4:30pm–Visit Birkenau to wander around on your own until dusk
Reading: Hayes Chapters 4 & 5; Sommer, “Sexual Exploitation” from Sexual Violence against Jewish Women; Hodgkinson, “The Concentration Camp as a site of
Dark Tourism.”
For more on Auschwitz-Birkenau see: http://auschwitz.org/en/
Friday, May 17
GET UP EARLY: We have to be at Auschwitz at 7:30 AM. All day at Auschwitz-Birkenau, including guided tour with Paweł Sawicki, journalist and photographer in the Press Office at
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Reading: Zalewsk, “Selfies from Auschwitz.” Cole, “Camps” from Holocaust Landscapes
Group Dinner–Imperial Hotel
Saturday May 18
Reflection Day. You will have the entire day to rest and reflect on what we have seen. You may choose to go back to Birkenau and wander or go back to Oświęcim. Make your own transportation plans. The bus in front of Auschwitz runs to Birkenau every 15 minutes for most of the day if you are interested.
Sunday, May 19
7:45 SHARP Leave Oświęcim on Coach and head to Kraków train station
Board the high-speed EIP “Pendolino” train to Warsaw; 9:46-12:10 AM.
Check into hotel, Novotel Warsaw Centrum, ul Marszalkowska 94/98, 00-510 Warsaw
https://www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-3383-novotel-warszawa-centrum/index.shtml#origin=novotel
Afternoon–Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews
After Polin meet Dr. Agnieszka Haska of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research for a tour of the site of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto.
Evening free
Reading: Cole, “Ghetto,” from Holocaust Landscapes
For more on the Warsaw ghetto see: https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/about/ghettos/warsaw.html
Monday, May 20
8AM SHARP: Coach to Treblinka (site of former extermination camp)
Return to Warsaw and Novotel Warsaw Centrum,
Late afternoon, remains of Jewish Ghetto, Jewish cemetery and/or main synagogue
Reading: Wiernik, “A Year in Treblinka;” Venezia, “Inside the Gas Chambers.”
For more on Treblinka see: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/history-and-overview-of-treblinka
Group Dinner Warsaw
Tuesday, May 21: Transfer to Łódź
7:30 AM SHARP: Morning: Coach to Łódź: Be ready to leave by 7:30 AM. Arrive 10:30-11:00. Leave Chełmno
Stop at Chełmno Death Camp en route to Łódź. Leave for Łodź around noon.
If possible, see Łódź Radegast Train Station on arrival in Łodź.
http://www.lodz-ghetto.com/the_radegast_station.html,38
Later, check into the Łódź Novotel Hotel. Piłsudskiego 11A, 90-368
https://www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-7830-novotel-lodz-centrum/index.shtml
Evening lecture on “Holocaust by Bullets” with Deputy Director at Yahad-In Unum, Michal Chojak, who is flying in from Paris (where Yahad-in Unum is based) to work with us.
We will figure out dinner! Lecture at Hotel
Reading: Desbois, Holocaust by Bullets—entire—makes sure you’ve read the whole book as Michal Chojak will be addressing the book and Father Desbois’s work. Make sure at this point you’ve also read, Desbois, “Rapes” from his book In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets, 69-74.
Wednesday, May 22
8:30 AM SHARP: Meet faculty from Yahad-in Unum and spend the day with them. Visit to Killing sites and discussion with former “bystanders.” Visit Piotrkow Trybunalski and Tomaszow Mazowiecki. Reading: Review Desbois, Holocaust by Bullets.
Meet with Hubert Buczak (investigator), Renata Masna (interviewer) and Michał Chojak from Yahad-in Unum and spend the day with them. Visit killing sites and discussion with former “bystanders.” Visit Piotrkow Trybunalski and Tomaszow Mazowiecki.
8.30 am Departure from the Hotel
9.30-11.00 am Visit to sites related to the prewar Jewish life in Piotkrow Trybunalski: the synagogue and the Bet Midrash, the Jewish cemetery
11.00–12.00 am Visit to sites connected with World War II and the Holocaust: Former ghetto of Piotrkow Trybunalski, first ghetto in German occupied Poland, the cemetery for Soviet prisoners of war, the Forest Wolborski, execution site of Jews from Piotrkow Trybunalski
12.00 am – 13.00 pm: Meeting with a witness of the execution in the Wolborski forest
1.00 – 2.00 pm Lunch break and departure to Tomaszow Mazowiecki
2.00-3.00 pm Traces of the Jewish past of Tomaszow Mazowiecki: The former Talmud Tora school, the building of the Mikveh
3.00-4.30 pm Visit of two mass execution sites in Tomaszow Mazowiecki
4.30 pm Meeting with a witness at the Jewish cemetery of Tomaszow, execution site of Tomaszow Jews
6.00 pm: Departure to Łodź
Dinner on your own once back in Łodź
Thursday, May 23
8:30 AM SHARP: Take coach to Return to Kraków–check back into Hotel Galaxy, Gesia 22a, 31-535 Kraków https://galaxyhotel.pl/en
Free afternoon and evening in Kraków
Friday, May 24
6:30 AM SHARP: Airport transfer—Leave Krakow for Norfolk; Be ready to leave the hotel at 6:30 AM.
Dr. Finley-Croswhite will accompany students back home while Dr. Chapman will remain in Krakow to do some research.
United Airlines flight 9547 from Krakow (KRK) to Munich (MUC) 9:25am to 10:40am
United Airlines flight 107 from Munich (MUC) to Washington DC (IAD). 12:20pm to 3:30pm.
United Airlines flight 6026 from Washington DC (IAD) to Norfolk (ORF). 5:15pm to 6:19pm.