Meeting/Reading Schedule
Date Topic Reading
| April 11: 12:20-1:20 | Study Abroad Meeting Dragas 2108 | Discuss itinerary, rules and regulations |
| April 12: 5:00-8:00 | Study Abroad information and Holocaust history New Ed. 2304 | Meet Drs. Finley and Chapman |
| May 9: 10:00-12:00 | Reading Spatially with Drs. Chapman and Finley. Meet in Webb Center at Starbucks | Learn how to read landscapes |
| May 12: Flight Day Norfolk Airport 10:30 AM | Flight Day: Make sure you’ve read Peter Hayes, Why? Explaining the Holocaust to page 258 by the time we land in Kraków | |
| May 13: Kraków | 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 |
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| May 14 | Kraków, Płaszów | Class at Jagiellonian University with Dr. Edyta Gawron, Read: Hayes, Why? chapter 6
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| May 15 | Kraków: | Meet Maciek Zabierowski, Read, Cole “Prologue” from Holocaust Landscapes |
| May 16 | Auschwitz-Birkenau Class will be held at the Auschwitz Jewish Center in a classroom | 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/ |
| May 17 | Auschwitz-Birkenau | Zalewsk, “Selfies from Auschwitz.” Cole, “Camps” from Holocaust Landscapes,Tour and class with Paweł Sawicki, Auschwitz-Birkenau Press Office |
| May 18 | Reflection Day | Catch up on unfinished reading |
| May 19 | Warsaw | Cole, “Ghetto,” from Holocaust Landscapes: Tour and discussion with Dr. Agnieszka Haska, Polish Center for Holocaust Research
For more on the Warsaw ghetto see: https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/about/ghettos/warsaw.html |
| May 20 | Treblinka | Wiernik, “A Year in Treblinka;” Venezia, “Inside the Gas Chambers.”
For more on Treblinka see: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/history-and-overview-of-treblinka |
| May 21 | Łódź: | Meet staff, Yahad-In Unum including Deputy Director, Michal Chojak. He will lead our class. Read, Desbois, Holocaust by Bullets; Make sure you’ve completed the entire book and can discuss it. |
| May 22 | Polish Countryside: | Faculty/Staff from Yahad-In Unum will lead our class. Read, Desbois, “The Rapes” from Father Patrick Desbois, In Broad Daylight |
| May 23 | Łódź and Kraków | Last day in Poland—no reading |
| May 24 | Kraków-Norfolk | Flying Home |
| May 24-31 | No meetings | Make post-trip blog post by May 31 |
| June 7 | Debrief; New Ed 2304—time TBA | Hayes, Why?, chapter 8 |
| June 28 | NO Class | Email final paper to Drs. Chapman and Finley and make final blog post |