Thursday, August 18, 2011 Friday, August 19, 2011

Thursday, August 18, 2011 Friday, August 19, 2011

Thursday, August 18, 2011
LOCATION
Executive Committee Meeting, all day
Irena Sendler Teacher Award, at lunch time
Wars and Sawa
Friday, August 19, 2011
Governing Board Meeting, all day
Will need registration check-in and conference bags/packets
brought to this meeting room.
Wars and Sawa,
14:00 – 17:00
Governing Board of EU-AS Meeting
Kometa.
13:00 – 18:00
Conference Check-in
Lobby
17:00 – 18:30
Happy hours
Corridor 2nd Floor
18:30 – 19:00
Shabbat Service
Sawa
19:00 – 19:20
Candle lighting led by Rabbi Michael Schudrich
Grand Ballroom
19:20 – 20:00
Welcome ceremony
Grand Ballroom
20:00 – 21:00
Shabbat Dinner
Grand Ballroom
21:00 – 21:45
Lecture by Rabbi Michael Schudrich:
Renewal of Jewish Life in Poland
Grand Ballroom
22:00 – on
Survivors meet by Country of Origin:
Poland
Netherlands
Germany, Austria
France, Greece, Italy, Spain
Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia
Czech Rep., Slovakia, Croatia
Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovenia
Other countries
Grand Ballroom
Baltic I
Wars
Sawa
Syrena
Baltic II
Wisła
Wawel
Second Generation meeting
Congress Hall
Saturday, August 20, 2011
7:00
Shabbat Service
Sawa
7:30 – 9:00
Breakfast
9:00 – 9:15
Welcome ceremony,
Announcements
Grand Ballroom
9:15 – 10:00
Lecture by Prof. Feliks Tych:
Jews fighting in the Second World War
Grand Ballroom
10:15 – 12:15
PANEL OPEN TO ALL
A. Hitler and Stalin – similarities, differences, implications today
– Moderator: Rene Lichtman. Konstanty Gebert and Andrzej Żbikowski
Congress Hall
WORKSHOPS FOR SURVIVORS ONLY
1. How do I feel about being in Poland – what does being here bring
up for me – Alfred Garwood
Baltic I
2. Reviving memories and coming to terms with my past
– Elisheva van der Hal
Baltic II
WORKSHOP FOR 2G ONLY
3. Why We have Come to Poland: Our thoughts and feelings about coming
to the Center of the Shoah – Charles Silow
Baltic III.
WORKSHOPS OPEN TO ALL
Polish language. We invite all attendees speaking Polish. Let’s be together.
4. Why I remained in Poland, why I left Poland – Ewa Domagalska-Kurdziel
and Łukasz Biedka
Kometa
5. Life in a mixed marriage – Katarzyna Prot
and Krzysztof Szwajca
Syrena
Saturday Schedule
12:15 – 13:00
Free time
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 14:45
Lecture by Prof. Adam Rotfeld:
Holocaust: memory-forgiveness-reconciliation?
Grand Ballroom
15:00 – 17:00
PANELS OPEN TO ALL
B. Second Generation – our Jewish identity – Moderator: Anna Dodziuk.
Isaac Kot, Krzysztof Szwajca and Charles Silow
Baltic I
C. Claims Conference: Activities and Issues
– Moderator: Stefanie Selzer
Congress Hall.
WORKSHOPS OPEN TO ALL
6. How does my past still affect my life today
– Gershon Williger
Baltic II.
7. Reflecting memory through Art - You don't have to be an artist to attend!
– Tamar Hendel
Baltic III
WORKSHOP FOR SURVIVORS ONLY
8. Abused As Children – Alfred Garwood
and Elisheva van der Hal
Sawa
WORKSHOPS OPEN TO ALL
Polish language. We invite all attendees speaking Polish. Let’s be together.
(4). Why I remained in Poland, why I left Poland – Katarzyna Prot
and Krzysztof Szwajca
Syrena
(5). Life in a mixed marriage – Ewa Domagalska-Kurdziel
and Łukasz Biedka
Kometa
Saturday Schedule
17:20
Religious Service
Sawa
19:00 – 20:00
Dinner
Grand Ballroom
20:00 – 20:45
Lecture by Dr Leszek Allerhand:
Jews in pre-war Lvov
Grand Ballroom
21:00 – on
Adam Mazurka’s Trio, dancing
Congress Hall
22:00 – on
Debriefing, informal get together (open to all)
Wisla
Sunday, August 21, 2011
7:30 – 9:00
Breakfast
9:00 – 9:15
Announcements
Grand Ballroom
9:15 – 10:00
Lecture by Prof. Aleksander Skotnicki:
Jews in pre-war Krakow
Grand Ballroom
10:15 – 12:15
PANELS OPEN TO ALL
D. Jewish Communal Properties and Restitution – Moderator: Stefanie Seltzer.
Zbigniew Nizinski, Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Piotr Kadlcik
and Monika Krawczyk
Congress Hall
E. Jewish Children and Rescuers – Moderator: Rene Lichtman.
Elżbieta Ficowska, Marion Feldman, Samantha Elkins
and Joanna Michlic
Baltic I
WORKSHOPS OPEN TO ALL
9. Confronting Our Future as We Grow Older
– Daisy Miller
Baltic II.
10. Poland and all it Represents for Me – Alfred Garwood
Baltic III.
WORKSHOP FOR 2G ONLY
11. What does it Mean to be a Second Generation?
Sharing our Stories, Dilemmas and Problems
– Anna Dodziuk
Wawel
WORKSHOPS OPEN TO ALL
Polish language. We invite all attendees speaking Polish. Let’s be together.
12. What it means to be a Jewess/Jew – Ewa Domagalska-Kurdziel
and Łukasz Biedka
Kometa
13. How we would like to form 3G – Katarzyna Prot
and Krzysztof Szwajca
Syrena
12:15 – 13:00
Free time
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 14:45
Lecture by Helena Datner:
To be a Jew in Poland
Grand Ballroom
15:00 – 17:00
PANELS OPEN TO ALL
F. Anti-Semitism and Other issues in Today’s Europe – Moderator: Steven Adler.
Max Arpels Lezer, Melita Svob, Andrzej Jonas, Hania Rosenberg
and Philipp Sonntag
Congress Hall.
G. Holocaust Education: How to teach the Holocaust, how are survivors passing
on memories – Moderator: Aleksandra Kopystynska. Daisy Miller,
Edyta Kurek, Norman Conard, Karen Brass, Charles Silow,
Baltic I.
WORKSHOPS OPEN TO ALL
13. Writing - Capturing Memories for Myself and Others
– Lillian Nemetz
Wawel
14. Resilience and Other Legacies to Pass on to the Next Generations
– Stefanie Seltzer
Baltic II.
WORKSHOPS OPEN TO ALL
Polish language. We invite all attendees speaking Polish. Let’s be together.
(12). What it means to be Jewess/Jew –Katarzyna Prot
and Krzysztof Szwajca
Syrena
(13). How we would like to form 3G – Ewa Domagalska-Kurdziel
and Łukasz Biedka
Kometa
19:00 – 20:00
Dinner
Grand Ballroom
20:00 – 20:45
Plenary panel: Why we have come to Poland?
Grand Ballroom
21:00 – on
Concert by artists of Jewish Theater
and dancing
Congress Hall
22:00 – on
Debriefing, informal get together (open to all)
Wisla
Monday, August 22, 2011
7:30 – 9:00
Breakfast
9:30 – 10:30
Closing Ceremony
Speaker: Stefanie Seltzer
Grand Ballroom
11:00 – 13:00
„Righteous Among the Nations” –
ceremony organized by the Israeli Embassy in Poland
Grand Ballroom