Program

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

13:30 - Official begin with 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

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 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

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. 

16:30 Free time

19:30 Optional Shabbat service (location tbc)

20:30 Shabbat dinner (tbc)

08:30 - Bus departs to Mexikoplatz

09:00 - Participant-centered learning activity through the 2nd and 1st district, based on Centropa interview excerpts on the time of the Anschluss. End at Heldenplatz

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 - Challenges 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 - Jewish Museum 

11:00 -  Return to conference venue 

Elective groups meet

13:00 - Lunch at conference venue

14:00 - Centropa: 25 years of story telling 
Introduction to Cafe Centropa with film screening of Leo Luster

14:30 - Leo Luster film 

15:00 - Cafe Centropa with survivors and their families and coffee

16:30 - Book discussion 

Introduction to Prague

18:00 - Free evening

09:00 - Bus transport to Brno

11:15 - Visit of Synagogue Agudas Achim, Brno

11:45 - Participants split up into 3 groups. Each group will trace a different Centropa biography in Brno.

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

14:45 - Bus transfer to Prague

17:00 - Check into hotel

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

12:30 - Lunch

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 - 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 - Centropa film screening in Ghetto Museum (Dagmar Lieblová)

11:45 - Individual visit of Ghetto Museum

13:00 - Lunch

13:45 - Guided tour of Terezín

15:45 - Participant learning activity on 2 different sites (to be chosen beforehand)

Suggested sites  

1. Magdeburg barracks (art as survival strategy & resistance)

2. Square (impressions on Marktplatz) -Visit of Red Cross (walk the 

16:45 - Bus Transfer to crematorium

17:00 - Visit of crematorium and cemetery

17:30 - Memorial ceremony, individual reflection

18:00 - Bus transfer to Prague

19:00 - Free evening in Prague

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

09:15 - Visit of New Jewish cemetery

10:45 - Reflection on Terezin

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

12:30 - Lunch

13:30 - Stolperstein walk

15:00 - Finalising presentations / get ready to present

15:30 - Coffee break

16:00 - Final presentations

17:00 - Slide show and wrap-up

19:00 - Final dinner 
 

Participants depart.