Program

12:00 - 13:30 Arrival & registration at conference venue 

13:30 - Opening remarks by Centropa 
Setting the tone: 20th Summer Academy. Why Vienna & Prague? 

Screening of Centropa’s Film: Jewish Soldiers (03:45)
14:15 - Icebreaker: Participants meet for the first time

15:00 - Coffee break

15:30 - Short introduction to afternoon program

15:45 - Historical lecture by Phillip Blom (Vienna and its Jews in the interwar period),

followed by Q&A

16:45 - Electives meet for the first time

17:45 - Back to hotel and check-in 

19:15 - Meet in lobby

19:30 - Welcome dinner

08:15 - Meet in hotel lobby

08:30 - Depart for walking tour of Jewish Vienna

09:00 - Guided tour of Jewish Vienna with focus on interwar period

11:00 - Leopoldmuseum

12:45 - Lunch in MQ

14:00 - Walk to Austrian Parliament

14:30 - Tour of parliament and exhibition, discussion with Hannah Lessing and Rivka Junger on Jewish life, prevention of Antisemitism, and Holocaust Education. 

17:15 - Departure for Synagogue

18:00 - Shabbat Service 

19:00 - Kiddush and Shabbat dinner 

08:30 - Bus departs 

09:00 - Participant-centered learning activity through the 2nd and 1st district, based on Centropa interview excerpts.

11:00 - Bus departs to Shoah Wall of Names Memorial

11:15 - Guided tour at Shoah Wall of Names Memorial

12:00 - Bus departs for conference venue 

12:30 - Lunch at conference venue

13:30 - Panel Discussion - Contemporary Challenges and approaches in teaching about the Holocaust

14:30 - Marketplace of Ideas

15:45 - Coffee break

16:00 - Elective groups meet

18:00 - Free evening

09:00 - Meet at Venue 1 for book discussion, excerpt from Ilana Fritz Offenberger's Jews of Nazi Vienna and Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937–1948 by Madeleine Albright.

10:15 - Coffee break

10:45 - Elective groups meet

12:15 - Depart for Venue 2 

12:45 - Lunch with Cafe Centropa members

13:45 - Centropa: 25 years of story telling - Introduction to Cafe Centropa with film screening of Herbert Lewin

14:30 - Cafe Centropa - meeting with Holocaust survivors and their families over coffee

15:30 - Transfer to Jewish Museum

16:00 - Self-guided tour of the Jewish Museum
18:00 - Free evening

09:00 - Bus transport to Brno

11:15 - Visit of Synagogue Agudas Achim, Brno

11:45 - Group activities in three groups: tracing a different Centropa biography in Brno through a walking tour and visits to the museum and the Jewish cemetery

13:15 - Lunch and jigsaw activity (bringing groups together)

14:30 - Bus transfer to Prague

17:00 - Check into Hotel + 

18:00 - Free evening

9:00 - Public transport to Prague Jewish Museum

9:30 - Tour of the synagogues (Old New Synagogue & Spanish Synagogue), exhibitions and old Jewish cemetery of the Prague Jewish Museum

12:00 - Lunch at the Jewish Community

13:15 - Travel

13:30 - Historical lecture on Czech Jewish History by Dr. Tomasz Kraus

14:30 - Screening of Centropa’s film ‘My escape from Prague’ about Jindrich Lion

14:45 - Centropa session followed by discussion on using materials in class

15:15 - Working Coffee break

15:30 - Creating your final presentations for the electives

17:00 - Reception 

18:00 - Free evening

07:30 - Meet in the hotel lobby

07:45 - Bus transfer to Terezín

08:45 - Arrive at Small Fortress

09:00 - Guided tour through the Small Fortress

10:30 - Bus Transfer to Terezín 

10:45 - Coffee break

11:15 - Screening of Centropa’s film "From Bohemia To Belsen ... “ about Dagmar Lieblová

11:45 - Individual visit of Ghetto Museum

13:00 - Lunch

13:45 - Guided tour of Terezín

15:45 - Bus Transfer to crematorium

16:00 - Visit of crematorium and cemetery

16:45 - Bus Transfer to Town Square 

17:00 - Participant learning activity

18:00 - Bus transfer to Prague

19:00 - Free evening in Prague

09:00 - Meeting in the hotel lobby, walk to new Jewish cemetery

09:15 - Visit of New Jewish cemetery

10:30 - Walking back to the Hotel 

10:45 - Reflection on Terezin

11:15 - A meeting with Centropa Interviewee and Holocaust Survivor Michaela Vidlakova 

12:30 - Lunch

13:30 - What’s next after the CSA In your region

14:00 - Finalising presentations for elective lessons / get ready to present

15:00 - Coffee break

15:30 - Final presentations of elective lessons

16:45 - CSA slide show and wrap-up

19:00 - Final dinner 
 

Participants depart.