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European Field Study 2009
This is an outline of the itinerary for the 2009 European Field Study. The route is also available as a map.
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Sunday
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July 19 |
[Canadian and
Kraków students: depart in evening] |
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Monday
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July 20 |
Afternoon: meet
in Stuttgart; transfer to Bad Urach |
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Tuesday
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July 21 |
Bad Urach (workshops) |
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Wednesday
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July 22 |
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Thursday
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July 23 |
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Friday
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July 24 |
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Saturday
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July 25 |
Stuttgart (free time plus afternoon seminar) |
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Sunday
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July 26 |
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Monday
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July 27 |
Berlin (visit and seminar at Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz) |
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Tuesday
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July 28 |
Berlin (day visit to Ravensbrück memorial site) |
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Wednesday
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July 29 |
Berlin (visits to important sites & educational institutions) |
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Thursday
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July 30 |
Berlin (visit to Jewish Museum Berlin) |
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Friday
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July 31 |
Berlin (small group visits to memorial sites) |
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Saturday
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August 1 |
Berlin (free time plus afternoon seminar) |
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Sunday
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August 2 |
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Monday
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August 3 |
Kraków (workshops and walking tour) |
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Tuesday
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August 4 |
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Wednesday
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August 5 |
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Thursday
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August 6 |
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Friday
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August 7 |
Warszawa (workshops and site visits) |
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Saturday
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August 8 |
Warszawa (free time plus afternoon seminar) |
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Sunday
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August 9 |
Warszawa (walking and bus tour to important sites) |
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Monday
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August 10 |
Warszawa (day visit to Treblinka memorial site) |
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Tuesday
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August 11 |
Travel from Warszawa to Gniezno via Chelmno memorial |
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Wednesday
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August 12 |
Gniezno (workshops and site visits) |
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Thursday
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August 13 |
Gniezno / Poznan* (workshops and site visits) |
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August 14 |
Return home |
Details
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Stuttgart-Bad Urach
Stuttgart
From Bad Urach we will
travel to Stuttgart for the weekend. There we will have the opportunity to attend Shabbat services and church services, and to participate in an expert seminar. There will also be time to explore the city and do laundry.
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Berlin
After time for church services, we will travel to Berlin, visiting the memorial site at Leonberg on the way.
The capital of the new Germany, Berlin
provides many important historical and memorial sites of relevance
to the project, as well as access to institutions of government
and learning.
Our stay in Berlin will include visits to:
In addition to discussions within the group and
with experts from the Berlin area, we are also planning:
- Individual or small-group research trips to such sites
as the Museum of the German Resistance, Karlshorst (documenting
the role of the Soviet Union in World War II and in relations
with former East Germany), and related sites
- Shabbat service (optional) and dinner at the Berlin Jewish
Community Centre.
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Kraków
The cultural capital of Poland, Kraków
is famous for its beautiful medieval town centre as well as
for its castle, university, and impressive churches. Its old
Jewish Quarter has been restored, and the Ghetto area can be
visited along with the Plaszów Concentration Camp and the site
of Otto Schindler's factory.
While in Kraków we can discuss recent developments
with faculty from the Akademia Pedagogiczna (Pedagogical University),
one of the Project's partner institutions. We will also use
Kraków as a base from which to visit the nearby city of Oswiecim.
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Oswiecim*
This city is better known by the German name of the
concentration and death camp system that has become synonymous
with the Holocaust: Auschwitz. We will work with experts at
the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau
w Oswiecimiu). On separate days, we will visit the site at Auschwitz
I and Auschwitz II Birkenau, one of the principal killing centres
of the Holocaust. We will also visit the old town of Oswiecim including Jewish sites.
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Warszawa
Poland's capital city, Warsaw houses major political and educational resources of relevance
to the project. During our stay we will be welcomed by the
Canadian Embassy and have meetings with experts from the Warsaw
area. We will also visit:
- The Warsaw "Old Town" (rebuilt after its destruction
in World War II)
- The Jewish Historical Institute and other Jewish sites, including the synagogue, the former
Ghetto and the Jewish Cemetery
- The memorial site of the former death camp of Treblinka,
northeast of Warsaw.
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Gniezno / Poznan*
The Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, the Project's
principal partner university in Poland, will host the group
for our closing deliberations and project-planning for the follow-up
colloquium that will take place at York University in February 2010. We may stay in
Gniezno, an early Polish capital city and for over a thousand years the seat of an archbishop. We will
visit memorial sites in nearby
Zabikowo and Chelmno, as well as exploring the beautifully restored historic centre of Poznan itself.
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* Note: Because some Web Browsers and printers
cannot reproduce the entire Polish alphabet, we have used alternative
spellings for some words.
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