[YSU-Jewish] Study Tour to Poland

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Travel to Poland!

 

Spend spring break (March 9-18, 2006) exploring history and historic
preservation in Eastern Europe!  Go for the experience or take the study
tour for college credit.

 

Highlights of the trip include:

 

* Tour Auschwitz-Birkenau and then spend the next day doing hands on work in
the Conservation Lab at Auschwitz Concentration Camp 

 

* Dinner in a Medieval Salt Mine 

 

* Tour a Medieval Castle

 

* See Schindler's Factory

 

* Meet with Polish Students 

 

The tour begins in Warsaw's Old Town, continues to Lodz to learn about the
restoration and adaptive reuse of its historical buildings including
industrial complex and the palaces of former industrialists.   Visit the
remnants of Jewish life in Lodz and the Lodz Ghetto including the largest
remaining Jewish cemetery in Europe.  From Lodz, travel to Auschwitz for a
two day study tour including a day at the Museum's conservation lab doing
hands on work! Tour the Wieliczka Salt Mines, one of three UNESCO World
Heritage sites visited on the trip, then stay for dinner served underground
in the mine.  Next learn about communism in Poland with a tour Nowa Huta, a
communist created factory town.  Explore Krakow including the medieval Wawel
castle, tour the Jewish quarter where Schindler's list was filmed, and see
the Schindler Factory.   

 

Led by history professors Dr. Helene Sinnreich and Dr. Thomas Leary this
trip will take participants through the three largest cities in Poland -
Warsaw, Lodz and Krakow as well as Auschwitz concentration camp.  Students
may enroll in the Youngstown State University online course (History 4850
for undergraduates and History 6957 for graduate students) to take this
study tour for credit.  

 

Student Cost: $1900 (Contact Dr. Sinnreich for information on possible cost
subsidies)

[to qualify for the student rate, students must be enrolled in History 4850
or 6957]

 

Non-Student Cost: $2240

 

Fee includes: Round trip air travel to Poland, transportation from YSU
campus to airport and all transportation in Poland, most meals, entry to all
sites, and all tour guide services.     

 

For more information, contact Dr. Sinnreich at hjsinnreich at ysu.edu or
330-941-1603.

 

 

Helene J. Sinnreich, Ph.D.

Director of Judaic and Holocaust Studies

Youngstown State University

Youngstown, OH 44555

330-941-1603 (telephone)

330-94102304 (fax)

www.ysu.edu/judaic

 

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