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The CENTROPA Summer Academy that I am here for started today.  There must be 70 of us in the entire group.  The other people are mostly educators and are from every country you can imagine...USA, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Greece, Israel, Turkey, Chicken and rice...(that was a joke, haha..not) Serbia, Macedonia, Hungary, Austria and on and on.  We mingled in the lobby at about noon and then headed to our first session at the Oranienberg Strasse Neu Synagogue.  There we had a welcome session and learned more about what the rest of the week would be.

Through Berlin in the footsteps of Rosa Rosenstein. Heat, history and a lot of reading with Ed leading the team.

Berlin is my favorite city, so I'm really glad to be here. Centropa Seminar Academy is gonna start soon, and there is no other better way to start it than to have lunch with all  85 participants of the Seminar iv Cafe Orange.

I'm eager to learn how I can use effectively Centropa materials in my classrooms. During the CAS I inend to share my experiences in this unique trip and hopefully new thoughts and insight about education, history and everything that is related.

I arrived here early yesterday morning. I already have been able to get a taste of the city. The instructions on the site of the summer academy on how to get to the hotels were perfect. I got to my hotel (walking distance from the hotel where I will stay during the seminar) easily. I love big cities with excellent public transport facilities.

While wandering around the back streets (one of our favorite hobbies) behind Tyn Church in Prague, we stumbled upon a fascinating little store filled with huge amounts of interesting things, appropriately named Bric a Brac (Tynska 7, Praha 1), owned and operated by Milos Gavrilovic. As we looked around and chatted with him, we discovered that not only did he know his inventory, he loved it. In particular, he loved the history and the stories behind the physical artifacts, the provenance.

On 24 June 1942, the small town of Lezaky was attacked by German security forces and Czech collaborators for having hidden a resistance radio transmitter and commandos whom had aided in the assasination of Heydrich. 47 men, women, and children were taken. 18 women and 15 men were shot on the spot. Others were sent to concentration and death camps like Chelmno. They buildings of this stone-working town were then destroyed and razed by German labor front forces. After the war, two small girls and their grandfather survived to return.

Hi everybody,

see you soon in Berlin.

Greetings from Poland.

Aleksandra Bura

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Hi there,

In two days I take of to Berlin to my first Centropa Summer Academy. I think the best way to describe what I'm feeling is Excitement. Right now I'm trying to search for cool places to go to on my free time.

My main intention in participating in this wonderful seminar is to try and make connections with K-12 schools all over the world for collaborative learning in different levels, and I hope I'll come back with a long list of schools

Yair

On 4 June 1942, SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich, Reichsprotector of Bohemia and Moravia, the Blond Beast, died of an infection related to the wounds received in a commando assasination, code named Operation Anthropoid. The commandos were betrayed and committed suicide in St. Cyril's crypt in Prague. In reprisal for Heydrich's death, thousands were murdered by the Nazis. Based on spurious evidence, they decided that the commandos were connected to the town of Lidice. Accordingly, on 10 June members of the OrPo and the SD surrounded the town. 173 men were executed on the spot.