July 3, 2023 - July 13, 2023:
2023 Seminar is FULL! If you would like to be considered for 2023 waitlist submit your application soon!
Overview
2023 Seminar is FULL! If you would like to be considered for 2023 waitlist submit your application soon!
What are some of the first names that come to mind when we think of Vienna? Freud, Mahler, Zweig…all twentieth century (Jewish) cultural icons.
We will be Visiting Vienna’s Jewish and non-Jewish sites as well as the Mauthausen & Hartheim Concentration camps. In Prague we will explore the rich Jewish culture through the many medieval synagogues there. We will also tour the Castle and the Old Town of Prague and explore the many Art-Nouveau architectural treasures. In 1933, there were some 250,000 Jews living in Austria. By 1945 less than 10,000 Austrian Jews had survived the Holocaust in hiding or in the Camps. Half of the Commandants of the Nazi extermination camps were Austrian! After the War, Austrian courts managed to acquit the majority of Nazi war criminals. Come join our Vienna-Prague Study Seminar as we examine the history of Austro-Hungarian Jewry with a special emphasis on Austria and Czechoslovakia. We will dive deeply into what transpired before, during and after the War. Our aim is to follow the trajectory of Austrian collaboration, denial and finally contrition for their actions during the Holocaust. Our seminar will also delve into the major contributions that Austrian and Czech Jews made to their homelands and to the world. Finally, we will examine where these two Central European countries stand with regards to current antisemitism, their relationship to Israel and how they deal with contemporary moral crises such as the Ukrainian refugee situation. For more information, please email [email protected]Itinerary
Tentative itinerary: Day 1: Vienna
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- Sites: Schönbrunn Palace, Café Landmann in Schönbrunn, Belvedere Musuem and Garden
- Overnight: Vienna
- Sites: Jewish walking Tour Leopoldstadt and 1st. District, Jewish Museum, meet with the Vice President of the Jewish Community, Freud Museum and Jewish Cemetery in Seegasse
- Overnight: Vienna
- Sites: Visit the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Memorial to the Jewish Victims of the Shoah at Ostarrichi Park, Währinger Cemetery and Brunnenmarkt
- Overnight: Vienna
- Sites: Vienna City Tour, Aspang Train Station Memorial, visit to the Museum Quarter museums
- Overnight: Vienna
- Sites: Tour of Hartheim and Mauthausen, Shabbat dinner in Salzburg
- Overnight: Salzburg
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- Sites: Visit the Strahov Library, the Prague Castle, Lesser Town, Charles Bridge
- Overnight: Prague
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- Sites: Visit the Jewish Quarter of Prague, Old Town
- Overnight: Prague
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- Sites: Day trip to Terezín and Lidice
- Overnight: Prague
Resources
Please see below for videos and resources relating to our Vienna-Prague Study Seminar.
Pricing
Costs and Fees:
All costs include: pre-seminar workshops, curriculum, airfare, lodging, all ground transportation, guides, entrance fees, and most meals.- Full price: Adults $4925* ($3325* not including airfare)
- Educators from CWB Partnering Schools/Service Areas: $1850* after CWB subsidies
- Out-of-Service-Area Educators: Please contact [email protected] for more information.
Videos
CWB 10 Year VideoRelated Materials and Events
- Austria
- A Community Lecture by Prof. Dr. Albert Lichtblau
- November 6, 2022 Vienna-Prague Study Seminar Open House Meeting
- Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World
- Transatlantic Barometer
- Czech Republic
- A Community Lecture by Prof. Dr. Albert Lichtblau
- Post Film Discussion Liga Terezin
- November 6, 2022 Vienna-Prague Study Seminar Open House Meeting
- Czech Embassy Series: Featuring Novelist, Poet and Translator Marek Toman
- Transatlantic Barometer
- Berlin to Prague: A Study Seminar
- Antisemitism
- Ghetto Wall- Warsaw by Starlo Galetta
- Reflection by Teresa McCombs
- A Short Reflection by Michelle Szydlowski
- Hidden History: by Michelle Szydlowski
- America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies
- Barbara G. Arfa Annual Professional Development Conference on Holocaust Education “From Documentation to Social Media: Empowering Students to Analyze (Mis)Information"
- Liberation and Return to Life: An American liberator's story
- WOMEN IN THE HOLOCAUST: THEIR DAY-TO-DAY STRUGGLES
- Anne Frank Lesson Ideas and Plans
- Evaluating Media Coverage of the Holocaust and the Tree of Life Shooting
- Understanding and Ending Hate
- Remembering ‘Tree of Life’… “Never again, means NEVER AGAIN!”
- Avenues for Change: Holocaust & Genocide Studies
- Traces: Portraits of Resistance, Survival and Resolve
- What the Fact?! Teaching Guide
- International Day for Tolerance
- 2023 Poland Personally: A Study Seminar to Poland
- 2023 Children's Village: Volunteer to make an impact!
- Poland Personally: A Study Seminar to Poland 2022
- Jewish History
- An Oasis in Time and Space by Joelle Chandler
- Shabbat by Sara Bogomolny
- Berlin Reflection by Jonathan Butensky
- The Sounds by Sarah Greenwald
- Israel at 75 Reflections for Yom Ha'atzmaut
- Post Film Discussion Air Born
- “Give us our husbands back” - Civil Resistance Born out of Love in Nazi-Era Berlin
- A Community Lecture by Prof. Dr. Albert Lichtblau
- The “Carlos Project” – Teaching Culture and Language in Your Classroom
- Life of European Jews before WWII: Introduction to Journey With Howard Chandler App
- Avenues for Change: Holocaust & Genocide Studies
- Traces: Portraits of Resistance, Survival and Resolve
- Humanity in Action Releases Animated Documentary 'Voices in the Void'
- The U.S. and the Holocaust
- 2023 Germany Close Up
- 2023 Poland Personally: A Study Seminar to Poland
- Berlin to Prague: A Study Seminar
- Discovering Morocco
- The Holocaust
- Blog Post by Heather S
- Day 4: What Bologna Asks Us? by Kate Lukaszewicz
- Discovering Italy: July 15th by Melody Meadows
- Venice by Avi Ben Hur
- Poland Personally and Holocaust Remembrance: Experiences of Students and Faculty Touring Holocaust Remembrance Sites in Poland
- Victimization of Jewish Women Survivors by Their Soviet Liberators
- “Give us our husbands back” - Civil Resistance Born out of Love in Nazi-Era Berlin
- A Community Lecture by Prof. Dr. Albert Lichtblau
- Anne Frank Lesson Ideas and Plans
- Evaluating Media Coverage of the Holocaust and the Tree of Life Shooting
- Social Awareness and Activism Through Music
- Antisemitism, Past to Present: Activism to Create a Change
- Avenues for Change: Holocaust & Genocide Studies
- Traces: Portraits of Resistance, Survival and Resolve
- Humanity in Action Releases Animated Documentary 'Voices in the Void'
- The U.S. and the Holocaust
- 2023 Germany Close Up
- 2023 Poland Personally: A Study Seminar to Poland
- Berlin to Prague: A Study Seminar
- Fully Subsidized! VAMPY Holocaust Education Summer Program for Gifted Students