Fragments

Thirsday 7 September 

German occupation in Poland - political and racist principles of the Nazi policy of extermination and their realization at KL Auschwitz,

introductory lecture – Dr Franciszek Piper

Guided study visit of the former camp Auschwitz I,

blocks 15 and 27 included – Teresa Wontor-Cichy

How to address the need to combat Antisemitism with students in the classroom?

workshop and discussion – Orit Margaliot, Hava Baruch, Dr Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs and the OSCE representative

The Auschwitz SS garrison, workshop – Mirosław Obstarczyk

The Holocaust in art and literature,

lecture - Krystyna Oleksy, Museum Director for Education, Naama Shik, Orit Margaliot

 

Friday, 8 September

Jewish women and children in the camps with special focus on Auschwitz,

 workshop – Naama Shik

Polish, Romani and Byelorussian women and children in KL Auschwitz,

lecture – Helena Kubica

Guided study visit of the former camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau,

Sauna, Canada and Judenrampe included– Teresa Wontor-Cichy

Polish responses to the Holocaust in General Government and in the territories

 incorporated to the Third Reich,

lecture – dr Piotr Setkiewicz

Hungary and Poland: Jewish life between two world wars

A look from two different perspectives

lecture – Hava Baruch and Orit Margaliot

Neo-Nazism and Auschwitz denial in documentary films,

workshop - Jacek Lech

 

Saturday, 9 September

How to use the visit in the memorials as part of an educational process,

panel and participant’s discussion – Hava Baruch, Orit Margaliot, Dr Piotr Trojański, Alicja Białecka, moderated by Jacek Lech

The difficulties in teaching the Holocaust, in history as well as interdisciplinary methods,

panel and participant’s discussion – Naama Shik, Orit Margaliot, Hava Baruch,

Dr Piotr Trojański, Alicja Białecka, moderated by Jacek Lech

Life within the barbed wires, meeting with Bronisława Niusia Karakulska, née Horowitz, a Schindler’s list survivor

and Kazimierz Smoleń, a survivor and a former Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Chewra Lomdei Misznajot Synagogue in Oświęcim, meeting at the Auschwitz Jewish Center, sightseeing in the Old Town of Oświęcim

Poland and Oświęcim Today, meeting with Zbigniew Bartuś, the Chief Editor of a daily Dziennik Polski

 

Sunday, 10 September

Genocide of European Sinti and Roma, workshop – Alicja Białecka

Significance of Auschwitz as a Memorial Site – complexity of memories, remembrances, commemoration and symbolism,

lecture and discussion – Naama Shik and Museum Deputy Director Teresa Świebocka

New national exhibitions: Czech and Slovak Victims of KL Auschwitz – block 16

The Fate of Jews from Hungary – block 18

People Deported from France to Auschwitz 27.03.1942 – 27.01.1945 – block 20

Dutch exhibition – block 21

Belgian exhibition– block 20

 

Comments

All people could exchange during 4 days. To meet different teacher is very important to build new ideas and concept

Thinking, working on this subject in an other language call new words, new dimension. Great experience and great moment of friendship

Look pictures album to feel what I can't show you .

Thank you for all.