[no places available] The Warsaw Ghetto Museum invites teachers and educators to a free off-site seminar "In the Footsteps of Operation Reinhardt" on March 26–27, 2022.
On March 17, 1942, "Operation Reinhardt" began – a carefully planned operation to systematically exterminate the entire Jewish population of the General Government and later the Białystok District, exploiting the victims' labor and plundering their property. The operation was likely named after Reinhard Heydrich, organizer of the Wannsee Conference and chief architect of the Holocaust. SS-Brigadeführer Odilo Globocnik, the SS and Police Commander in the Lublin District, was appointed its head. As part of Operation Reinhardt, Jews were murdered both in their places of residence and in extermination camps such as Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka, and the camps originally intended as concentration camps: Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau. In total, during Operation Reinhardt, which lasted until the end of 1943, approximately 1,85 million Jews were killed, most of them citizens of the Second Polish Republic.
Seminar program
Saturday, March 26
7.15 – gathering at Bankowy Square near the Juliusz Słowacki monument
7.30 – 10.00 transfer to Lublin
10.00 – 14.00 lecture and walk"In the footsteps of Operation Reinhardt" – Prof. Dariusz Libionka
14.15 – 15.00 lunch 15.00 – 16.00 visit to "Grodzka Gate"
16.00-18.30 – guided walk "Jewish Lublin"
Approx. 6:45 PM – check-in at the hotel (Dom na Podwalu)
19.30 dinner
Sunday, March 27
8.00 – breakfast
9.00 – 10.00 visit to the Museum Majdanek
10.00 – 11.00 – transfer to Trawniki
11.00 – 13.00 – visit to the site of the former labor camp in Lawns – Agnieszka and Piotr Sewruk
13:00 – 13:45 lunch at Trawniki
Approx. 13:45-15:15 transfer to Poniatowa
15.15 – 16.15 visit to the commemorative sites of the forced labor camp in Poniatowa
Around 18:30 PM return to Warsaw
Applications should be sent to wmlynarczyk@1943.pl by March 10.
Please note that the participant list has been filled. We are no longer accepting registrations for the seminar. Those interested are asked to visit our website for information on future MGW projects.
