Kraków: May 29 - June 4
May 29: Friday--Kraków
Hostel: Dizzy Daisy
http://www.krakowhostel.pl
-Breakfast: at 9:30am at Restauracja Jagienka
http://www.jagienkakrakow.com
-The Royal Castle and Kraków Walk
(We will meet out tour guide, Ewa Gawryła, at 1:30 pm next to the Cathedral at Wawel. Sightseeing will take around 4-5 hours.)
-Evening Tea at Jama Michalika (the Green Balloon)
http://jamamichalika.pl
May 30: Saturday—Salt Mine at Wieliczka
http://www.kopalnia.pl
-Breakfast at 9:30 am
-Wieliczka at 1:20 pm, we need to leave the hostel at 11:30 am.
May 31: Sunday-- War and Occupation in Kraków
-Breakfast at 9 am
-We will meet our tour guide, Anna Maria Baryła from Jewish Community Center, at 10:00 am in front of the Old Synagogue in Kazimierz.
June 1: Monday —Auschwitz
-No breakfast at the hostel (bring it with us)!
-Departure from our hostel at 8:00 am.
-Meeting with Agnieszka Sieradzka at Auschwitz Birkenau at 10:00 am. Sightseeing starts at 11:00 am.
http://auschwitz.org/en/
-Next we will visit Memory Sites Near Auschwitz-Birkenau:
http://auschwitz-podobozy.org/en/places-of-memory
June 2: Tuesday—Post-War Kraków and the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN)
-Breakfast at 9 am
-At 10 am we have a meeting at the Institute of National Remembrance in Krakow
-Meeting with IPN prosecutor Łukasz Gramza who is in charge of an active investigation concerning Auschwitz
-Meeting with Martyna Grądzka about IPN projects, e.g. the Righteous Among the Nations.
At noon we will walk over to the Jagiellonian University, where we will visit University Museum and have a meting with Adam Komorowski, the son of Tadeusz Bór Komorowski, appointed commander in chief a day before the capitulation of the Warsaw Uprising and following the WWII, Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
A meeting will take place at the Jagiellonian University in Collegium Maius.
http://www.krakow-info.com/maius.htm
June 3: Wednesday—Partial Free Day
-Breakfast at 9:30 am.
-Visit to Schindler’s Museum at 11:50 am.
Zakopane : June 4 - June 6
June 4: Thursday—Travel to Zakopane
-Breakfast at 9:30 am.
-We need to leave the hostel at 11 am and traveling by Polski Bus at 12:05 pm.
-Arrive at 2 pm in Zakopane.
-Hostel: U Kośle
http://www.ukosle.pl
June 5: Friday—Zakopane
-Breakfast at 9 am.
-Meeting with our tour guide Piotr Skonecki at 10 am.
-Sightseeing: Old Zakopane, Old Cemetery, Old Church in zakopianski style, Gubałówka, Chocholowa, Tatra Museum and Museum of Zakopane Style
Lublin: June 6 - June 10
June 6: Saturday—Zakopane to Lublin
-Breakfast at 9 am.
-We are going to take a bus from Zakopane to Lublin at 2 pm. We will arrive in Lublin at 9:40 pm (bring enough food for the long bus ride).
Hostel: Folk Hostel
http://folkhostel.pl/en/folk-hostel-2/
June 7: Sunday—Majdanek
-Majdanek—workshop at 10 am with Jolanta Lasowska (around 5 hours long)
http://www.majdanek.eu/index.php?lng=1
June 8: Monday—Old Lublin and Jewish Lublin
-We will meet our guide for Lublin, Magdalena Dziaczkowska, at 9 am.
9.00 - 10.30 exhibition "Lublin. Memory of the City "
http://teatrnn.pl/node/78/the_grodzka_gate_–_nn_theatre_centre
10.30 - 14.00 former Jewish district (ghetto, Yeshiva, cemetery)
14.00 - 15. 00 lunch
15.00 - 17.00 Old Town
17:30 – Lublin underground. At 5:25 pm we need to be in front of Lubelska Trasa Podziemna (Rynek 1).
http://teatrnn.pl/podziemia/
June 9: Tuesday—Bełżec
-At 8:30 am we will leave Lublin. Our bus will leave from the Lublin Bus station (parking space 16).
-At 11 am we will meet Ewa Koper in Bełżec.
-On our way back to Lublin we will stop by Zamość.
http://www.belzec.eu
Łódź: June 10 - June 12
June 10: Wednesday–trip to Łódż.
-Wednesday morning we will take a train to Łódz, time TBA
June 11: Thursday—Łódz
-At 11 am we will begin sightseeing Łódz with Milena Wicepolska
Warsaw: June 12 - June 17
June 12: Friday—Travel to Warsaw
-In the morning we will take a train to Warsaw, details TBA
-Hotel: Start hotel Aramis
http://www.hotelaramis.pl/en/
-At 4 pm we will meet Paweł Szczerkowski who will show us old Warsaw (Krakowskie Przedmieście and Old Town)
June 13: Saturday— The Warsaw Uprising Museum
-Breakfast at 9 am.
-In the morning, we will visit the Museum of the Warsaw Uprising.
http://www.1944.pl
-In the afternoon, we will visit the Museum of the Polish Jewry (Polin).
June 14: Sunday—Treblinka
- Breakfast at 8 am.
- Bus will pick us up at 9 am.
June 15: Monday —Jewish Warsaw
-Meeting with Katarzyna Kacprzak at 11am at the Central Train Station.
June 16: Tuesday—Bus Drive
-Breakfast at 9 am.
- In the afternoon, we will take a bus that will drive us around Warsaw (from 4 pm – 8 pm) .
Gdańsk: June 17 - June 24
June 17: Wednesday—Train to Gdańsk
-Train from Warsaw to Gdańsk
-Hotel: Hotel Stay Inn
http://www.stayinngdansk.com
-In the evening we will walk around the city
June 18: Thursday—European Center of Solidarity
-Breakfast at 9 am.
-A visit to the European Center of Solidarity at 2 pm.
http://www.ecs.gda.pl/title,Jezyk,pid,2,lang,2.html
-In the evening, at 6 pm. we will have a tour of St. Mary’s Basilica.
http://www.bazylikamariacka.pl
June 19: Friday— Stutthof Concentration Camp
-Tour of Stutthof at 3 pm. A bus will pick us up from the hotel at 1:50 pm.
http://stutthof.org/english
June 20: Saturday— walk from Gdynia to Sopot
-Breakfast at 9am.
-A walk from Gdynia to Sopot along the beach
-Evening dinner at Prof. Muller’s house
June 21: Sunday—Shipyard and kayaks
-Breakfast at 9am.
-The Gdańsk Shipyard and kayaking around downtown
http://www.kajakiempogdansku.pl
In the afternoon, we will meet with a Gdańsk writer, Piotr Perkowski who will show us Gdańsk from a post-1945 communist perspective.
June 22: Monday— Westerplatte and WWII Museum
-Breakfast at 9 am.
-After breakfast, we will take a ferry to Westerplatte, where the Second World War started. There we will meet Dr. Jan Szkudliński, who will tell us about the beginning of the war.
http://www.local-life.com/gdansk/articles/battle-westerplatte
-After the meeting we will go to the Museum for a workshop.
http://www.muzeum1939.pl/en/home-page
June 23: Tuesday—free day and Shakespeare Theatre
-At 12:30, we will make a short visit to the newly open Shakespeare Theatre
http://www.teatrszekspirowski.pl/index.php
June 24:
-Check out of Hotel and farewell.
May 29: Friday--Kraków
Hostel: Dizzy Daisy
http://www.krakowhostel.pl
-Breakfast: at 9:30am at Restauracja Jagienka
http://www.jagienkakrakow.com
-The Royal Castle and Kraków Walk
(We will meet out tour guide, Ewa Gawryła, at 1:30 pm next to the Cathedral at Wawel. Sightseeing will take around 4-5 hours.)
-Evening Tea at Jama Michalika (the Green Balloon)
http://jamamichalika.pl
May 30: Saturday—Salt Mine at Wieliczka
http://www.kopalnia.pl
-Breakfast at 9:30 am
-Wieliczka at 1:20 pm, we need to leave the hostel at 11:30 am.
May 31: Sunday-- War and Occupation in Kraków
-Breakfast at 9 am
-We will meet our tour guide, Anna Maria Baryła from Jewish Community Center, at 10:00 am in front of the Old Synagogue in Kazimierz.
June 1: Monday —Auschwitz
-No breakfast at the hostel (bring it with us)!
-Departure from our hostel at 8:00 am.
-Meeting with Agnieszka Sieradzka at Auschwitz Birkenau at 10:00 am. Sightseeing starts at 11:00 am.
http://auschwitz.org/en/
-Next we will visit Memory Sites Near Auschwitz-Birkenau:
http://auschwitz-podobozy.org/en/places-of-memory
June 2: Tuesday—Post-War Kraków and the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN)
-Breakfast at 9 am
-At 10 am we have a meeting at the Institute of National Remembrance in Krakow
-Meeting with IPN prosecutor Łukasz Gramza who is in charge of an active investigation concerning Auschwitz
-Meeting with Martyna Grądzka about IPN projects, e.g. the Righteous Among the Nations.
At noon we will walk over to the Jagiellonian University, where we will visit University Museum and have a meting with Adam Komorowski, the son of Tadeusz Bór Komorowski, appointed commander in chief a day before the capitulation of the Warsaw Uprising and following the WWII, Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
A meeting will take place at the Jagiellonian University in Collegium Maius.
http://www.krakow-info.com/maius.htm
June 3: Wednesday—Partial Free Day
-Breakfast at 9:30 am.
-Visit to Schindler’s Museum at 11:50 am.
Zakopane : June 4 - June 6
June 4: Thursday—Travel to Zakopane
-Breakfast at 9:30 am.
-We need to leave the hostel at 11 am and traveling by Polski Bus at 12:05 pm.
-Arrive at 2 pm in Zakopane.
-Hostel: U Kośle
http://www.ukosle.pl
June 5: Friday—Zakopane
-Breakfast at 9 am.
-Meeting with our tour guide Piotr Skonecki at 10 am.
-Sightseeing: Old Zakopane, Old Cemetery, Old Church in zakopianski style, Gubałówka, Chocholowa, Tatra Museum and Museum of Zakopane Style
Lublin: June 6 - June 10
June 6: Saturday—Zakopane to Lublin
-Breakfast at 9 am.
-We are going to take a bus from Zakopane to Lublin at 2 pm. We will arrive in Lublin at 9:40 pm (bring enough food for the long bus ride).
Hostel: Folk Hostel
http://folkhostel.pl/en/folk-hostel-2/
June 7: Sunday—Majdanek
-Majdanek—workshop at 10 am with Jolanta Lasowska (around 5 hours long)
http://www.majdanek.eu/index.php?lng=1
June 8: Monday—Old Lublin and Jewish Lublin
-We will meet our guide for Lublin, Magdalena Dziaczkowska, at 9 am.
9.00 - 10.30 exhibition "Lublin. Memory of the City "
http://teatrnn.pl/node/78/the_grodzka_gate_–_nn_theatre_centre
10.30 - 14.00 former Jewish district (ghetto, Yeshiva, cemetery)
14.00 - 15. 00 lunch
15.00 - 17.00 Old Town
17:30 – Lublin underground. At 5:25 pm we need to be in front of Lubelska Trasa Podziemna (Rynek 1).
http://teatrnn.pl/podziemia/
June 9: Tuesday—Bełżec
-At 8:30 am we will leave Lublin. Our bus will leave from the Lublin Bus station (parking space 16).
-At 11 am we will meet Ewa Koper in Bełżec.
-On our way back to Lublin we will stop by Zamość.
http://www.belzec.eu
Łódź: June 10 - June 12
June 10: Wednesday–trip to Łódż.
-Wednesday morning we will take a train to Łódz, time TBA
June 11: Thursday—Łódz
-At 11 am we will begin sightseeing Łódz with Milena Wicepolska
Warsaw: June 12 - June 17
June 12: Friday—Travel to Warsaw
-In the morning we will take a train to Warsaw, details TBA
-Hotel: Start hotel Aramis
http://www.hotelaramis.pl/en/
-At 4 pm we will meet Paweł Szczerkowski who will show us old Warsaw (Krakowskie Przedmieście and Old Town)
June 13: Saturday— The Warsaw Uprising Museum
-Breakfast at 9 am.
-In the morning, we will visit the Museum of the Warsaw Uprising.
http://www.1944.pl
-In the afternoon, we will visit the Museum of the Polish Jewry (Polin).
June 14: Sunday—Treblinka
- Breakfast at 8 am.
- Bus will pick us up at 9 am.
June 15: Monday —Jewish Warsaw
-Meeting with Katarzyna Kacprzak at 11am at the Central Train Station.
June 16: Tuesday—Bus Drive
-Breakfast at 9 am.
- In the afternoon, we will take a bus that will drive us around Warsaw (from 4 pm – 8 pm) .
Gdańsk: June 17 - June 24
June 17: Wednesday—Train to Gdańsk
-Train from Warsaw to Gdańsk
-Hotel: Hotel Stay Inn
http://www.stayinngdansk.com
-In the evening we will walk around the city
June 18: Thursday—European Center of Solidarity
-Breakfast at 9 am.
-A visit to the European Center of Solidarity at 2 pm.
http://www.ecs.gda.pl/title,Jezyk,pid,2,lang,2.html
-In the evening, at 6 pm. we will have a tour of St. Mary’s Basilica.
http://www.bazylikamariacka.pl
June 19: Friday— Stutthof Concentration Camp
-Tour of Stutthof at 3 pm. A bus will pick us up from the hotel at 1:50 pm.
http://stutthof.org/english
June 20: Saturday— walk from Gdynia to Sopot
-Breakfast at 9am.
-A walk from Gdynia to Sopot along the beach
-Evening dinner at Prof. Muller’s house
June 21: Sunday—Shipyard and kayaks
-Breakfast at 9am.
-The Gdańsk Shipyard and kayaking around downtown
http://www.kajakiempogdansku.pl
In the afternoon, we will meet with a Gdańsk writer, Piotr Perkowski who will show us Gdańsk from a post-1945 communist perspective.
June 22: Monday— Westerplatte and WWII Museum
-Breakfast at 9 am.
-After breakfast, we will take a ferry to Westerplatte, where the Second World War started. There we will meet Dr. Jan Szkudliński, who will tell us about the beginning of the war.
http://www.local-life.com/gdansk/articles/battle-westerplatte
-After the meeting we will go to the Museum for a workshop.
http://www.muzeum1939.pl/en/home-page
June 23: Tuesday—free day and Shakespeare Theatre
-At 12:30, we will make a short visit to the newly open Shakespeare Theatre
http://www.teatrszekspirowski.pl/index.php
June 24:
-Check out of Hotel and farewell.