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The Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History at the Breman Museum THE CUBA FAMILY ARCHIVES FOR SOUTHERN JEWISH HISTORY AT THE BREMAN MUSEUM Mss 381, Wittenberg Family Papers Box 1, File 29 Travel journal – Africa, 1995 ANY REPRODUCTION OF THIS MATERIAL WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE CUBA FAMILY ARCHIVES IS STRICLY PROHIBITED ● ● ● Cuba Family Archives 62 •4: Travel Journal AFRICA JOURNAL ENTRIES OJt -1 ~~~~~~~~ (-~~~~~~~~~~- Cuba Family Archives 64 •-.: Travel Journal AFRICA Travel Journal AFRICA •"¥ 65 \ Cuba Family Archives " 66 •'J: Travel Journal AFRICA Travel Journal AFRICA- •-.: 67 JOURNAL ENTRIES 1 I I· ' Cuba Family Archives Travel Journal AFRICA •'J.: 69 Cuba Family Archives 70 •;,: Travel Journal AFRICA Travel Journal AFRICA •4: 71 JOURNAL ENTRIES JOURNAL ENTRIES Cuba Family Archives 72 ·~ Travel Journal AFRICA Travel Journal AFRICA ·~ 73 JOURNAL ENTRIES JOURNAL ENTRIES ; Cuba Family Archives 74 ·~ Travel Journal AFRICA Travel Journal AFRICA ·~ 75 JOURNAL ENTRIES Cuba Family Archives 76 •4• Travel Journal AFRICA Cuba Family Archives 78 •4t Travel Journal AFRICA Travel Journal AFRICA •'.it: 79 Cuba Family Archives 80 ·4: Travel Journal AFRICA Travel Journal AFRICA •'J/ 81 JOURNAL ENTRIES Cuba Family Archives 82 ·~ Travel Journal AFRICA Travel Journal AFRICA ·~ 83 JOURNAL ENTRIES Cuba Family Archives 84 ·~ Travel Journal AFRICA Travel Journal AFRICA ·~ 85 JOURNAL ENTRIES JOURNAL ENTRIES Cuba Family Archives AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATIIBAL IDSTORY FAMILY SAFARI JULY 1995 PARTICIPANT UST Mr. Allyn Arden New York, NY Mr. Charles Boyer ~ f -~ c l ' · ~ ?,..,u ,..,,.. -~ ~· ,J - " , / Prospect, KY Ms. Ruth Compton Washington, DC Mrs. Phyllis Ellis Evanston, IL Master Dai tie! Mariner Shaven ·wn, PA Mrs. Clar;1 Friedman New Ynrk, NY Mr. Jonath;.n Friedm~·1 Scarsd'\le, NY Dr. David Kraushaar Mrs. Rebecca Kraushaar West Nyack, NY Mrs. Eleanor Meldahl Master Geoffrey Meld:l'.1! Master Joseph Meldah 1 fruro, MA Dr. Morton Wittenberg Mrs. Bernice Wittenberg Augusta, GA Ms. Janet Wooten New York, NY Ms. Ann Prew\tt (tour leader) New York, NY Cuba Family Archives Central Park West. at 79th Street New York, New York 10024-5192 Tel: (212) 769-5700 or (800) 462-8687 Fax: (212) 769-5755 .. l FINAL DAY-BY-DAY ITINERARY Budapest, Hungary: September 29- October 3, 2004 Wednesday. September 29th pm Arrival Checking in to the hotel, orientation walk cv Welcome dinner in the hotel (11;eneral information) Thursday. September 30th am Optional morning ,;sit to the largest coYcred ma1kct i1 Buuape~t I'ield trip to the new Holocaust J\luscum in Budapest pm SighHeeing excursion by bus (Hero's Square, Castle district. Ccllert Hill) cv Optional concert I'riday. October 1st am \'V'alking excursion in the one-time ghetto (Rumbach street Synagogue, Kazinczy street Synagogue, Holocaust and Karl Lutz f\lemorial. Jewish Museum) pm Lecture and djscussion: History of the Jewry in the Territory of Hungary Participation in a Jewish Sen·ice at the Dohany sueet Synagogue e,- Tradit;ional Sabbath din ner Saturdav, October 2nd am Discussion witl1 experts from ruffercnt cul rural backgrounds on H ungaff today (EYeryday-lifc of tl1e largest Jewish community in Central Europe) pm Free tinie (Optional program: 1-isit to a tl1crmal bath or a museum) cv I'arewell dinner with learning Hora-dancing and K.lezmer music Su nday, October 3rd am Departure Prague, Czech Republic: October 3 - October 7, 2004 Sundav. October 3ru Cubapm I\rrival, Family settling in, general infom1ation Archives meeting Monday, October 4th am History of Czech Jews and the Jewish community today - lecture and discussion pm City Excursion I - General information excursion by bus. Prague Castle, Charles Bridge. ev Boat excursion with dinner - meeting members of local Jewish communities Tuesday, October 5th am City Excursion II - Jewish sites and Je,vish Museum (includes the Old New Synagogue, Maisel Synagogue, Pinkas Synagogue, the Old Jewish Cemetery, Klausen Synagogue, T\1idrash in the High Synagogue, Spanish Synagogue) pm Old Town By bus to the New Jewish Cemetery (1890), visiting a ceremonial hall and famous graves, e.g. Kafka Wednesday. October 6th am Field trip to Terezin Terezin concentration camp, political prison (small fortress), Jewish ghetto, Ghetto T\Iuseum, Crematorium Discussion wid1 a survivor of World War II pm Free time i.n Prague ev Concert rarewell dinner Thursday, October 7th Departure to Krakow Krakow, Poland: October 7 - October 11, 2004 Thursday, October 7th KRAKO\V Krakow arrinl. Check 1n anJ time to refresh. Orientation. \Velcome dinner with music entertainment. Friday, October 8th KRJ\KO\V Lecture: ,, } ewr in Poland before and after the LMIY' I! " \Vatch a short movie about Kazimierz district in the Centre of Jewish Culture Following field trip through Kazimierz - a former Jewish district town in Krakow, Cuba withFamily its own Market Square,Archives Town I !all and thriving culture. See a magnificent Gothic defensive Old Synagogue and the Remuh Synagogue wid1 adjoining Renaissance cemetery. Visit the renm«1ted Temple Synagogue built for progressive l I Jews, decorated with stuccoes, paintings and stained glass. Time free . Shabbat clinner with Klezmer music concert. Saturday, October 9th KR.AKOW-TARN OW-KlD\KOW Lecture: ,,History ef Galician chassidizm': a movement for religio1f.r renewal ;v/Jich had its genesis on Polish lands, under the leadership of the legendary Baal-s::::_em -tov. Field trip to Tarnow, which boasts the 17th century synagogue, the only one preserved with the Bimah in Poland. See also the building of an old mikvah, a ritual Jewish bath, Talmud Tora' School, a monument commemorating the first Nazi transportation of prisoners to Auschwitz. Sunday, October I 0th KRAKOW-OS\V'IECIM-KRAKO\V' . ' Guided excursion of the LP'awel Rqyal Castle-UNESCO site, 1vhich boasts magnificent I 6'h c. Flemish tapestry collection. Field trip to Auschwitz, the largest death factory in the history of humanity. The site. of the camp now houses the Oswi~cim State Museum, which cli splays exhibits and documents concerning Nazi crimes. See a short documentary mm·ie. \V'e will also visit the Auschwitz Jewish Center in Os\viecim. The New York-based Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation Inc, established in 1995 and the Polish-based Fundacja Zydowskie Centrum Edukacyjne, founded in 1996, share the same mission: to establish and support a cultural center in Oswiccirn (A usc hwitz), that provides all visitors with an opportunity to mernorializc victims of the Holocaust, through the study of the life and culture of a former Jewish town. The Auschwitz Jewish Center, is a place of understanding, education, memory and prayer. Together ·with Chevra Lomdei Mishnayot Synagogue, it offers opportunities for study, cliscussion, and archival research. En route see Plaszow death camp where Ghetto apart, the Nazis relocated also many Jews. Most of the events portrayed in the film ,,Schinc.ller's List" took place here. Krakow overnight. Warsaw, Poland: October 11- October 14, 2004 Monday, October 11th KRAKO\V'-l'vIAJDANEK-WARSAW Lecture: ,,ct1rrent Ka:;:fmier:z District in Krakozv - people, initiatives, development prospeds" Transfer to \V'arsaw via Majdanek, the former Nazi concentration camp preserved for posterity, the site of the killing of 250,000 Jews from the \V'arsaw and Lublin CubaGhettos. Family Archives Warsaw mrernight. Tuesday. October 12th WI 1\ RS1\ W Field trip to Jewish sights of interest in Warsaw. Until the outbreak of the \'Y/\Y/ II, \Y/arsaw was an important Jewish cultural and spiritual centre. You will see: Jewish Historical Museum - an enormous collection of acts and documents from the \Y/arsaw Ghetto. It boasts also an exhibition on Jewish art, religious objects, mementoes. Opportunity to learn about the Institute research projects. Warsaw Ghetto - commemorative monuments at the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto. Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto Uprising designed by a famous sculptor Nathan Rappaport. There is its faithful copy in the Holocaust Museum ,, Yad Vashem" in Jerusalem. Mila 18 - the Z.O.B. Qewish fighters Organisation) main Warsaw bunker during the \Y/arsaw Uprising. More than one hundred people died here including Mordechai Anielewicz. ; Umschlagplatz - after being gathered in the Umschlagplatz courtyard, most of the \Y/arsaw Jews were sent to Treblinka, while a minority was sent to other camps. Today the site is marked by a memorial wall inscribed in Polish, YiJdish and Hebrew. N uzhik Synagogue - one of the five largest synagogues in the 20' 11 century \Y/arsaw. Jewish Cemetery - with tombs of noteworthy persons including writers l.L. Peretz and r\nski, actress E.R.Kaminska, Ludwig Zamenhof, doctor and inventor of Esperanto. Time free. J\ nice end to the day will be a recital performed in Yiddish by artists of the Jewish State Theater in Warsaw. \Y/arsaw overnight Wednesday. October 13th W ARSJ\. W-LODZ-WARSA \"YI Field trip to Lodz - up to the outbreak of \Y/orld War II, one of the largest Jewish centers in Poland. Manufacturers of Jewish origin determined the character of Lodz of the 19'h century and are recorded in the history of the city and its industry. Several large textile mills were in the hands of Jewish industrialists: the Poznanskis, Kohns, Ejtingons, and Wislickis families. There is an enormous wealth of this period architecture in the city. I ts characteristics incluJe magnificent Jewish palaces, whose decorations reached the height of fashionable extravagance. A good place to find out how the barons of industry lived in Lodz up till \Y/\Y/II is the ,,Ksiezy Mlyn" residence, awarded a honorary medal of the Europe Nostra Organization for the excellent reconstruction. The visit includes the Poznanski's beautiful palace, with exhibitions of mementos of _Artur Rubinstein - a great pianist of Jewish origin. Finally we will reach Je\'v-ish Cuba Family,,cemetery palaces" situated Archives in the Jewish cemetery, the largest Jewish graveyard in Europe. Return to \Y/arsaw. L __ _ }vfeetingjournalists of the "lvlidrasz" mctg{r;:Jne; a jeJVish month!J published in Polish in Ll:Yarsaiv, which launched itsjir.rt issue in J997.
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