Off-site seminar "Ghettos in the Radom District"

The Warsaw Ghetto Museum cordially invites teachers, educators, and guides to a field seminar that will take place on June 20-21, 2026.

The aim of the seminar is to deepen historical knowledge and explore memorial sites related to the Holocaust in the former Radom district. It is also an excellent opportunity to exchange professional experiences among specialists in Holocaust education.

Date: June 20-21, 2026

Day one June 20

  • 06:45 – Meeting on Królewska Street next to the Saxon Garden
  • 07.00 – departure from Warsaw
  • Approx. 11.00 – arrival in Kielce (coffee break on the way)
  • A walk with a guide, Dr. Paweł Grzesik
  • Hello 1 – the former area of ​​the so-called small and large ghetto: (the building of the former synagogue, the area of ​​the former ghetto cemetery, the house with the only preserved sukkah in Kielce, as well as monuments – places of remembrance of the Holocaust)
  • Coffee break
  • Part 2 – the historic Śródmieście district, located outside the area of ​​the former ghetto (Planty 7/9 – the site of the Kielce pogrom, the house on Sienkiewicza Street where Gustaw Herling-Grudziński was born, and other places where Kielce Jews lived, studied and worked)
  • Around 2:30 p.m. – lunch
  • Part 3 – Kadzielnia, the former Erlichów quarry, which was a place of forced labor for Jews during the war, bordering Pakosz – the former Jewish district
  • 8:00 p.m. - dinner
  • Around 8:00 p.m. – check-in at the hotel

Day two, June 21

  • 07.30 – 8.30 – breakfast at the hotel
  • 08.30 – departure for Chęciny
  • 09:30-11:30 – Chęciny – the former ghetto area, as well as the Jewish Culture Remembrance Center in the building of the former synagogue – Dr. Paweł Grzesik
  • 11.30-12.00 – coffee break
  • 12.00 – departure for Bodzentyn
  • Around 13.00 p.m. – Bodzentyn: Walk “In the Footsteps of Dawid Rubinowicz” – Robert Szuchta
  • 15:30 – 16:30 – lunch
  • Around 16.30 – 17.15 – visit to the Mausoleum of the Martyrdom of Polish Villages in Michniów (part of the exhibition related to the Holocaust)
  • 17.15 – 17.45 – transfer to the railway station in Suchedniów
  • 17.45-18.15 – Suchedniów – railway station from where Dawidek Rubinowicz was taken to Treblinka Robert Szuchta
  • Around 21.00 p.m. return to Warsaw

Note: The cost of the seminar is 100 PLN.

Applications are accepted until June 5, 2026, after completing the form at: LINK

The decision on qualification for the seminar will be communicated to you on June 9, 2026, via e-mail, together with the bank account number to which the fee should be transferred.