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TRIP PORTION:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday, May 12: <\/strong>Leave Norfolk. Arrive at the Norfolk Airport no later than 10:45 am.<\/strong><\/p>\n

United Airlines flight 4835 from Norfolk (ORF) to Chicago (ORD) 1:00pm to 2:35pm.<\/p>\n

Lufthansa Airlines flight 431 from Chicago (ORD) to Frankfurt (FRA). Leave 4:00pm, arrive May 13 at 7:15am.<\/p>\n

Lufthansa Airlines flight 1364 from Frankfurt (FRA) to Krak\u00f3w (KRK). 8:30am-10:00am. Arrival at our hotel around noon on May 13.\u00a0 Meet transportation services to take us into Krak\u00f3w<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Monday, May 13<\/strong><\/p>\n

Airport transfer to <\/strong>Arrive Krak\u00f3w. Check into Hotel Ester, Szeroka 20, Krak\u00f3w, <\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/hotel-ester.krakow.pl\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Walking tour of Krakow led by Dr. Finley<\/p>\n

Evening—do what you like as needed.<\/p>\n

Reading: Lehrer, Gruber, \u201cScenes from a Krak\u00f3w Caf\u00e9; \u201cTraveling Tschotschkes\u201d from Jewish Poland Revisited<\/em>. For more on the<\/p>\n

Jewish quarter—Kazimierz see: https:\/\/www.inyourpocket.com\/krakow\/Kazimierz_70207f<\/a><\/p>\n

Tuesday, May 14 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Morning\u2014P\u0142asz\u00f3w\u2014former labor camp. Our guide will be Krzysztof Suszkiewicz.\u00a0 Meet Krzysztof in front of our hotel at Szeroka St. at 9:30 AM. Return to Kazimierz by 1:00.<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.judaistyka.uj.edu.pl\/documents\/7834790\/12396359\/Gazeta_Spring17-050217+mg.pdf\/cf0ee66c-e6e5-4527-a715-2744913f720<\/a><\/p>\n

Visit the Krak\u00f3w JCC, around 4:00.\u00a0 Meet with Dr. Katarzyna Suszkiewicz.<\/p>\n

Group Dinner in town at \u201cOnce upon a Time in Kazimierz\u201d <\/strong>http:\/\/en.szeroka1.com\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

We have a reservation at 7:30 sharp and we can\u2019t be late!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reading: Hayes, chapter 6<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Wednesday, May 15<\/strong><\/p>\n

Morning\/afternoon–Tour of Krak\u00f3w and local synagogues conducted by Maciek Zabierowski, Learning and Special Projects Director with the Auschwitz Jewish Center.\u00a0 End at the Galicia Museum.\u00a0 Meet Maciek at 10am on Szeroka Street (right by our hotel) Lunch at Bagel Mama!<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.galiciajewishmuseum.org\/en<\/a><\/p>\n

Evening free<\/p>\n

Reading: Cole, \u201cPrologue\u201d from Holocaust Landscapes<\/em><\/p>\n

Thursday, May 16<\/strong><\/p>\n

8:45 AM SHARP: Leave Ester Hotel in Krakow and take Coach to Transfer to the Imperiale Hotel in O\u015bwi\u0119cim<\/strong> (across the street from Auschwitz). https:\/\/hotelimperiale.pl\/?lang=en<\/a><\/p>\n

11am-12pm–Class at the Auschwitz Jewish Center<\/p>\n

12-1pm–Tour of the AJC Museum.<\/p>\n

3pm–Visit the Center for Dialogue and Prayer<\/p>\n

4:30pm–Visit Birkenau to wander around on your own until dusk<\/p>\n

Reading: Hayes Chapters 4 & 5; Sommer, \u201cSexual Exploitation\u201d from Sexual Violence against Jewish Women; <\/em>Hodgkinson, \u201cThe Concentration Camp as a site of<\/p>\n

Dark Tourism.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more on Auschwitz-Birkenau see: http:\/\/auschwitz.org\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Friday, May 17<\/strong><\/p>\n

GET UP EARLY: We have to be at Auschwitz at 7:30 AM. All day at Auschwitz-Birkenau, including guided tour with Pawe\u0142 Sawicki, journalist and photographer in the Press Office at<\/p>\n

Auschwitz-Birkenau<\/p>\n

Reading: Zalewsk, \u201cSelfies from Auschwitz.\u201d\u00a0 Cole, \u201cCamps\u201d from Holocaust Landscapes<\/em><\/p>\n

Group Dinner–Imperial Hotel<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Saturday May 18<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reflection Day. You will have the entire day to rest and reflect on what we have seen.\u00a0 You may choose to go back to Birkenau and wander or go back to O\u015bwi\u0119cim. \u00a0Make 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.<\/p>\n

Sunday, May 19<\/strong><\/p>\n

7:45 SHARP <\/strong>Leave O\u015bwi\u0119cim on Coach and head to Krak\u00f3w train station<\/p>\n

Board the high-speed EIP “Pendolino” train to Warsaw; 9:46-12:10 AM.<\/p>\n

Check into hotel, <\/strong>Novotel Warsaw Centrum<\/strong>,<\/strong> ul Marszalkowska 94\/98, 00-510 Warsaw<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.accorhotels.com\/gb\/hotel-3383-novotel-warszawa-centrum\/index.shtml#origin=novotel<\/a><\/p>\n

Afternoon–Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews<\/p>\n

After Polin meet Dr. Agnieszka Haska of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research for a tour of the site of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto.<\/p>\n

Evening free<\/p>\n

Reading: Cole, \u201cGhetto,\u201d from Holocaust Landscapes<\/em><\/p>\n

For more on the Warsaw ghetto see: https:\/\/www.yadvashem.org\/holocaust\/about\/ghettos\/warsaw.html<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Monday, May 20<\/strong><\/p>\n

8AM SHARP: <\/strong>Coach to Treblinka (site of former extermination camp)<\/p>\n

Return to Warsaw and Novotel Warsaw Centrum, <\/strong><\/p>\n

Late afternoon, remains of Jewish Ghetto, Jewish cemetery and\/or main synagogue<\/p>\n

Reading: Wiernik, \u201cA Year in Treblinka;\u201d Venezia, \u201cInside the Gas Chambers.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more on Treblinka see: https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/history-and-overview-of-treblinka<\/a><\/p>\n

Group Dinner Warsaw<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Tuesday, May 21: Transfer to \u0141\u00f3d\u017a<\/strong><\/p>\n

7:30 AM SHARP: <\/strong>Morning: Coach to \u0141\u00f3d\u017a: Be ready to leave by 7:30 AM. Arrive 10:30-11:00.\u00a0\u00a0 Leave Che\u0142mno<\/p>\n

Stop at Che\u0142mno Death Camp en route to \u0141\u00f3d\u017a.\u00a0 Leave for \u0141od\u017a around noon.<\/p>\n

If possible, see \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Radegast Train Station on arrival in \u0141od\u017a.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.lodz-ghetto.com\/the_radegast_station.html,38<\/a><\/p>\n

Later, check into the \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Novotel Hotel. Pi\u0142sudskiego 11A, 90-368<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.accorhotels.com\/gb\/hotel-7830-novotel-lodz-centrum\/index.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n

Evening lecture on \u201cHolocaust by Bullets\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

We will figure out dinner!\u00a0 Lecture at Hotel<\/p>\n

Reading: Desbois, Holocaust by Bullets—<\/em>entire—makes sure you\u2019ve read the whole book as Michal Chojak will be addressing the book and Father Desbois\u2019s work.\u00a0 Make sure at this point you\u2019ve also read, Desbois, \u201cRapes\u201d from his book In Broad Daylight: <\/em>The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets, <\/em>69-74.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, May 22<\/strong><\/p>\n

8:30 AM SHARP: <\/strong>Meet faculty from Yahad-in Unum and spend the day with them. Visit to Killing sites and discussion with former \u201cbystanders.\u201d\u00a0 Visit Piotrkow Trybunalski and Tomaszow Mazowiecki. Reading: Review Desbois, Holocaust by Bullets.<\/em><\/p>\n

Meet with Hubert Buczak (investigator), Renata Masna (interviewer) and Micha\u0142 Chojak from Yahad-in Unum and spend the day with them. Visit killing sites and discussion with former \u201cbystanders.\u201d Visit Piotrkow Trybunalski and Tomaszow Mazowiecki.<\/p>\n

8.30 am Departure from the Hotel<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

11.00\u201312.00 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<\/p>\n

12.00 am \u2013 13.00 pm: Meeting with a witness of the execution in the Wolborski forest<\/p>\n

1.00 \u2013 2.00 pm Lunch break and departure to Tomaszow Mazowiecki<\/p>\n

2.00-3.00 pm Traces of the Jewish past of Tomaszow Mazowiecki: The former Talmud Tora school, the building of the Mikveh<\/p>\n

3.00-4.30 pm Visit of two mass execution sites in Tomaszow Mazowiecki<\/p>\n

4.30 pm Meeting with a witness at the Jewish cemetery of Tomaszow, execution site of Tomaszow Jews<\/p>\n

6.00 pm: Departure to \u0141od\u017a<\/p>\n

Dinner on your own once back in \u0141od\u017a<\/p>\n

Thursday, May 23<\/strong><\/p>\n

8:30 AM SHARP: <\/strong>Take coach to Return to Krak\u00f3w–check back into Hotel Galaxy, Gesia 22a, 31-535 Krak\u00f3w https:\/\/galaxyhotel.pl\/en<\/a><\/p>\n

Free afternoon and evening in Krak\u00f3w<\/p>\n

Friday, May 24<\/strong><\/p>\n

6:30 AM SHARP: <\/strong>Airport transfer—Leave Krakow for Norfolk; Be ready to leave the hotel at 6:30 AM.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Finley-Croswhite will accompany students back home while Dr. Chapman will remain in Krakow to do some research.<\/p>\n

United Airlines flight 9547 from Krakow (KRK) to Munich (MUC) 9:25am to 10:40am<\/p>\n

United Airlines flight 107 from Munich (MUC) to Washington DC (IAD). 12:20pm to 3:30pm.<\/p>\n

United Airlines flight 6026 from Washington DC (IAD) to Norfolk (ORF). 5:15pm to 6:19pm.<\/p>\n

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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 … <\/p>\n

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