A field seminar for teachers – Kulmhof and Łódz (9–10.10.2021)

The German extermination camp Kulmhof in Chełmno on the Ner was opened in December 1941 to carry out the immediate extermination of the Jews in Wartheland. The Germans carried out the extermination in gas chamber trucks using exhaust gasses. The bodies were buried in the Rzuchowski Forest. The bodies were also burned in the field crematoria. Jews from the surrounding ghettos and the Łódź ghetto, as well as German, Czech and Austrian Jews and also Roma from Łódź were murdered in the camp.

The seminar, which was planned for spring 2020 but was postponed due to the pandemic, aims to inform people about the history of the Łódź ghetto, the Jewish community of Łódź and their extermination, as well as contemporary forms of commemorating their heritage.

Seminar program

Saturday, October 9
8.15 – Pick up at Bankowy Square at the monument to Juliusz Słowacki
8.30 – 12.00 Drive to Chełmno
12.00 – 15.00 Visit to the museum of the former German death camp Kulmhof in Chełmno on the Ner
15.15 – 16.15 Lunch
16.15 – 18.00 Drive to Łódź
18.00 – hotel accommodation (Linat Orchim guest house, double room)
20.00 – dinner

Sunday, October 10
8.00 –  Breakfast
9.00–15.00 – Walking tour “In the footsteps of the Lodz Ghetto” with a guide and a visit to the Marek Edelman Dialogue Center  and the Park of Survivors, visit to the Jewish Cemetery, break at about 13.00 Lunch
15.30 – 16.30 – Dinner
18.30 – 19.00 – Return to Warsaw

The seminar is free of charge.

Registrations until September 30, 2021 to the following address: wmlynarczyk@1943.pl