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      Heritage Yeshiva Seminars - The Basic Itinerary

      All itineraries are subject to change

      gravesDay#1: Introduction, Warsaw - Lifestyle, Heroism and Chessed
      Warsaw - where 1 of 3 were Jewish, where Torah, and Jewish culture flourished, and where the most famous revolt by Jews took place.
      Warsaw Jewish Cemetery
      Warsaw Ghetto Areas
      Heroism Street - Rappaport Memorial / Mila 18/ Umshlagplatz
      Januz Korschak Orphanage
      Nozyk Synagogue- Meeting with the Chief Rabbi - Michael Shudrich
      Jewish Historical Institute- Meeting with Yale Riesner
      Pietrikow
      Peshuscha
      Gora Kalvaria (Gur) - Tish

      Day #2: Treblinka- The Art of Deception
      How does one build a death camp and not have one notice?
      How does a society cease to be ethical and moral and focus on mass murder?

      Jedwabne
      Tikocyn
      Lupachowa Forest
      Treblinka / Commemorative Ceremony

      Day #3 : Lublin/ Majdanek- From the Heights to the Depths
      Can you build a death camp in the middle of an urban population and then deny the atrocities that took place there?
      Where were the people? Where was the world?
      Lublin Ghetto
      Offices of Operation Reinhart
      Jewish Cemetery - Chozeh of Lublin
      Yeshiva of Chachmei Lublin- Chevrutah
      Majdanek / Commemorative Ceremony
      Wlodowa Synagogues

      Day #4: Kracow- The World of Scholarship and Beauty bench
      Who was the Remah ? What was his impact on society?
      What is a Righteous Gentile - Why were there not more of them?
      Remah Cemetery
      Alta Shul, Cracow Mikvah
      Apothecary/ Ghetto Wall
      Schindler factory
      Plazsow Camp/ Askara
      Vilechka- Salt Mines

      Day #5: Galicia- The World of Our Grandparents
      The uniqueness and intimate lifestyle of the shtetl.
      Why did Chassidut flourish here?
      Tarnow/ Dubrowa Tarnowa/ Bobov
      Pinchow
      Kielse
      Zbilatovska Gora - Commemorative Ceremony
      Sanz, Ryminow, Lancut
      Lezajsk- Tish at the The Rebbe Elimelech
      Preparations for Shabbat Brov Am

      girlDay #6: Shabbat in Krakow
      Remah Synagogue
      The Jewish Quarter - Isaac Synagogue, Kuppah Synagogue, Temple
      Meeting with Tadius Jacobovitz- The Youngest Partisan
      Old City Tour of Krakow
      Women's Siyum at the first Beit Yaakov

      Day #7: The Planet Auschwitz - The Unbelievable becomes Reality
      The kingdom of Auschwitz- no beginning and no end!
      Auschwitz I Seminar
      The Shimshon Kluger House at the Auschwitz Jewish Center
      Silent March to Birkenau
      Birkenau Seminar
      Commemorative Ceremony

      Days #8 - 9: PRAGUE OPTION - The Life that Was….old_woman
      The Jewish Museum Synagogue Tour - 3 hours
      The Maharal - Alta Noi Shul
      The Maharal Cemetery
      Chevrah Kadisha
      Prague Castles
      Artists Colony
      Town Square
      Charles River Bridge
      Karlovy Castles
      Terezinstadt

       

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