Prologue 2

June 22, 2010

Twenty-six educators from around the United States assemble at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. July 5, for the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers Program.

From Washington we fly to Tel Aviv and then stay in Jerusalem until we fly to Berlin, July 11. From Berlin we travel on July 14 to Poland: Warsaw, Lublin, Zamocs, Krakow, Lodz and back to Warsaw before returning to the United States July 24.

We will visit Yad Vashem, "the world center for documentation, research, education and commemoration of the Holocaust" established in Israel in 1953; the Wannsee Conference villa in suburban Berlin where plans for the "final solution" were finalized in a 90 minute luncheon meeting of top German officials in January 1942; the Warsaw Ghetto area; Auschwitz; the Schindler factory; Treblinka; and sacred sites in Warsaw, Krakow, Kielce, and Lodz; and meet with Israeli, German, and Polish teachers.

The American teachers on the trip come from Louisiana, Georgia, Texas, Arizona, Minnesota, Connecticut, Idaho, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Ohio, Oregon, North Carolina, and Indiana. The first goal of the program is "to advance education in U.S. secondary schools about the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance."