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Georgia Southern University 2012
Calendar
May - June, 2012
May 27 - Arrive in Berlin
May 28 - Learning about Berlin, City Tour
May 29 - Morning lecture on the history of antisemitism.
Afternoon Introductory Lecture and Orientation to the Jewish Museum
Evening - Discussion of Invisible Wall
Viewing of “the Longest Hatred”
May 30 - All Day Opportunity to “mine” the museum, guided questions and self guided and interest directed tour.
Follow Up - Discussion at the end of the day.
May 31 - Jewish Tour of Berlin, history and present with Jonathan Konits and/or Iris Weiss
Mining Berlin for Holocaust “memorials”
June 1 - Discussion of Isherwood and viewing of “Cabaret”
Time to go to special Berlin sights such as museums, old border etc
Arrange to attend services and have Friday night Shabbat dinner at Oranienburger Straasse Synagouge with Rabbi Gesa Ederberg of the “Masorti Movement”
June 3 - Afternoon trip to Potsdam
June 4 - Overnight Trip to Buchenwald
June 5 - Return from Buchenwald June 6 - Travel to “Ravensbruch” and possibly “Sachsenhausen” (this is doable in one day with group bus transporting us)June 7 - Processing Camps Trips. Free Time in Berlin
June 8 - We need a field trip to a place in Berlin to wrap up this part of the tripJune 9 - Shabbat: Travel to Cracow
June 10 - Afternoon city tour
June 11 - Morning: two lectures: One on Jewish history in Eastern Europe and Poland by Professor Dr. Michal Galas; One on the history of WW II and
the Holocaust by Dr. John W. Steinberg
Afternoon: Visit to the historic Jewish district.
June 12 - Morning: two lectures: One on Jewish history in Eastern Europe and Poland by Professor Dr. Michal Galas; One on the history of WW II and
The Holocaust by John W. Steinberg.
Afternoon: The Site(s) of the Jewish Ghetto
June 13 - Morning: two lectures: One on Jewish history in Eastern Europe and Poland by Professor Dr. Michal Galas; One on the history of WW II and
The Holocaust by John W. Steinberg.
Afternoon: The Jewish Museum of Galicia
June 14 - Morning: two lectures: One on Jewish history in Eastern Europe and Poland by Professor Dr. Michal Galas; One on the history of WW II and the Holocaust by John W. Steinberg.
Afternoon: Screening of Schindler’s list
June 15 - Morning: two lectures: One on Jewish history in Eastern Europe and Poland by Professor Dr. Michal Galas; One on the history of WW II and the Holocaust by John W. Steinberg.
Afternoon: A Synagogue tour that will hopefully conclude at a service
and Shabbat meal
June 16 - Shabbat: Day long Tour of Galicia
June 17 - Afternoon: The Jagiellonian Castle (also Hans Franks WW II headquarters)
June 18 - Morning: two lectures: One on Jewish history in Eastern Europe and Poland by Professor Dr. Michal Galas; One on the history of WW II and
The Holocaust by John W. Steinberg.
Afternoon: the Gray Zone
June 19 - Morning: two lectures: One on Jewish history in Eastern Europe and Poland by Professor Dr. Michal Galas; One on the history of WW II and
The Holocaust by John W. Steinberg.
Afternoon: On Auschwitz… an introduction to the banality of evil
June 20 - All day tour of Auschwitz
June 21 - Morning: two lectures: One on Jewish history in Eastern Europe and Poland by Professor Dr. Michal Galas; One on the history of WW II and the Holocaust by John W. Steinberg.
Afternoon: Free Time in Cracow
June 22 - Travel to Lublin, City/Ghetto tour
June 23 - Shabbat: MajdanekJune 24 - Travel to Lodz
June 25 - Tour Lodz Ghetto and return to Berlin
June 26 - 1) Jewish/German realities in Germany today:
a) Meeting with Rabbi Gesa Ederberg of the “Masorti Movement” and others in the movement on life for Jews in Germany today
b) Meeting with Deidre Berger, Director of the American Jewish Committee Berlin Office/Lawrence Ramer Institute for German-Jewish /Relations.
c) A More personal view: Dr. Matthew Konigsberg, Professor, Free University of Berlin, “Why I chose to become a German Citizen”
2) German Realities: Reflections from the soul of a German growing up in the seventies and eighties in East Germany, Dr. Irene Eierman
Evening screening/discussion of the Reader
June 27 - A ex-Berlin/German Jew reflections on his life: Discussion of Peter Gay’s memoir.
June 28 - Seminar with Anetta Kahane, Founder and Chairperson of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation on new forms of right-wing extremism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism in Europe since the fall of the Iron Curtain.
June 29 - Processing Course Experience with Dr. Martin Salm, Chairman of the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future”
June 30 - Shabbat : Free time in Berlin
July 1 : Return to the U.S.A.
