Two thirty a.m. Jerusalem time, EIE will wake up in order to depart David Ben Gurion Airport at the right time. We will make it to Poland later in the morning, and from here we will go straight to Warsaw. Spending the night in a hostel, we will wake up and take a a nice long drive to Tikochin and explore its community and shtettle. We will also go to Lepochova, and learn a bit more. Day two ends in Lublin.
Day three, on April 2nd, We'll visit Lubin and Majdanek and then sleep in Krakow. The following day, we will go to the Jewish Quarter of Kazmiericz and see Schindler's Factory. We end this night back in Krakow and celebrate Shabbat here. In the morning, we will have services which I volunteered to take part in, and then we will walk around and see a museum.
Sunday, on April 5th, marks our 6th day in Poland, and we will in turn visit Birkenau and Auschwitz. Destined to be a sad day, hopefully we will learn a lot. Our final full day in Poland, we will take a ghetto tour as well as go back to the Warsaw Ghetto in which we began our Poland trip in, and here we will help clean it up.
As this is just the itinerary for what we will have done, I hope to have more to say when I find a computer. Emotions, thoughts, ideas, future plans, and hopefully a course of action will be included in my future blogs and with that, I have to go. Finished packing, my computer is the last to go to storage. This will prove to be an interesting experience..
If you think Auschwitz will be bad...wait till you get a glimpse of majdanek...looks like it could be up and running tomorrow
ReplyDeleteWelcome back, Bekah. I have just gotten my first look through your blog, and so love reading your insights & experiences. I hope Sim has been sending my best wishes to you and Rachel...anyway, I know your time in Poland must have been incredibly moving, look forward to reading about it, and wish you a wondrous Pesach.
ReplyDeleteLove, Liz Cohen
Hi Becca: Poppi Shep and I have just read your most recent blog. We both really enjoyed your comments and are quite impressed with your writing. You really give a very wonderful accounting of all the amzing things which you are seeing and feeling. Your impressions are very heart touching. Love you lots and hope your visit in Israel continues to be exciting, and educational. Mema Gigi.
ReplyDeleteBekah...your blog entries are so informative...maybe you should be a writer...AND save the world!!
ReplyDeleteLove ya, Dad