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Holocaust Studies Trip to Poland for
Alumni and Friends
May 9-18, 2009
The typical Polish marketplace, the Rynek, is a colorful
scene of flower shops, boutiques, restaurants, pubs, and people
watching. Here, Albion students explore the Kraków Rynek. |
In May 2009, Albion alumni and friends will have the opportunity to
travel to Poland as part of the College’s
Holocaust Studies
Service-Learning Project. Sponsored by the Office of Alumni/Parent
Relations, this trip will be led by two Albion
history professors and a Polish-Jewish child survivor of the Holocaust.
The group will visit
Holocaust sites, including the Warsaw Ghetto, Treblinka, and Auschwitz,
and spend a morning working with current Albion students in the ongoing
restoration of the New Jewish Cemetery in Wrocław.
More detailed information appears on the accompanying pages. If you
have questions, please contact Marcia Starkey, associate vice president
for alumni/parent relations, via email at:
mstarkey@albion.edu.
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(Above) Oskar Schindler saved Jews from the death camps
by employing them at his Kraków metal stamping plant during
the Holocaust. In 2001, Albion students dedicated the bronze
plaque seen here, commemorating the place made famous by the
book and movie "Schindler's List." Recently, the Polish
government converted the factory to a museum, and the Albion
group (seen here in 2007) visits during each trip.
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(Above) While few synagogues remain from the pre-World War
II era, Kraków's Synagogue Remu is one of the oldest
continuously operated Orthodox houses of worship in Europe.
(Left) Albion students on the semi-annual Holocaust Studies
Service-Learning Trip have worked since the late 1999s to
restore the New Jewish Cemetery in Wrocław and help create a
"community of memory" in the land ravaged by the Nazis.
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