Field seminar for teachers

The Warsaw Ghetto Museum would like to invite teachers and educators to a free field seminar to Chełmno on Ner and Lodz between 21 and 22 March, 2020

The German Kulmhof Death Camp in Chelmno on Ner was established in December 1941 to immediately exterminate Jews in Reichsgau Wartheland. The Germans exterminated people in gas-vans, using exhaust fumes. The bodies were buried in Rzuchów Forest. The corpses were also burnt in field crematoria. Jews from nearby ghettos and the Lodz ghetto, German, Czech, and Austrian Jews as well as Romani people from Lodz were murdered in the camp.

Seminar agenda:

Saturday, 21 March

• 8.15 a.m. – assembly at Bank Square at Juliusz Słowacki monument.
• 8.30 a.m. – 12.00 a.m. – travel to Chełmno
• 12.00 a.m. – 3.00 p.m. – visit to the Museum of the former German Kulmhof Death Camp in Chelmno on Ner
• 3.15 p.m. – 4.15 p.m. – lunch
• 4.15 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. – travel to Lodz
• around 6:00 p.m. – accommodation at the hotel
• 8.00 p.m. – dinner

Sunday, 22 March

• 8.00 a.m. – breakfast
• 9.00 a.m. – 3.00 p.m. – a guided tour of the Lodz ghetto and a visit to the Marek Edelman Dialogue Center and the Survivors’ Park, visiting the Jewish Cemetery, lunch at around 12.00 a.m. during the break
• 3.15 p.m. – 4.15 p.m. – lunch
• around 6.30 p.m. – 7.00 p.m. – return to Warsaw

Applications should be sent until 15 March to the following address wmlynarczyk@1943.pl

The seminar is free of charge.

Anna Kilian

Photo, monument at the former German Kulmhof Death Camp (public domain)