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Tentative Itinerary

History 257 IS (2009)  --  WWII in Europe: Life in a Time of War

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1
Leave Washington, D.C. (Dulles)

2
Arrive
Paris, France

Coach to   Bayeux,   France

3

Normandy
StudyD-Day sites

4
Normandy
Study D-Day sites

5
Coach to Paris

Train from Paris to Amsterdam

6
Amsterdam
Morning: Explore the Anne Frank House

Afternoon: canal boat tour

7
Amsterdam

Morning: learn about Dutch life under the German occupation at the Resistance Museum

Afternoon: independent exploration

8
Train to Prague

9
Prague

Morning: walking tour of historical sites in Prague

Afternoon: explore the Jewish Museum

10
Prague

Examine sites relating to the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

Morning: site of the attack, houses where the assassins hid, Church of Sts. Cyril and Methodius

Afternoon: site of the village of Lidice

11
Prague
Morning: independent exploration

Afternoon: meet with a survivor of   Terezin and Auschwitz

12
Olomouc

Morning: train to Olomouc, Czech Republic

Afternoon: walking tour of historic sites

13
Train to Krakow
Afternoon: Tour of Wavel Castle

14
Krakow

Morning: independent exploration

Afternoon: study Jewish Krakow (Kazimierz) and Schindler's factory

Evening: Klezmer concert

15
Krakow
Investigate Auschwitz-Birkenau (all day)

16

Train to Warsaw

Morning: train

Evening: ghost tour of vanished Warsaw

17
Warsaw
Morning: walking tour of historic sites

Afternoon: examine sites relating to the Warsaw Ghetto

Evening: optional cultural event

18 

Warsaw
Study sites relating to Polish suffering and Catholic martyrdomunder the Soviet occupation, and the Museum of the Warsaw Uprising 1944.

Overnight train to Berlin

19

Berlin
Arrive in Berlin

Orientation tour of the city

20

Berlin

Morning: Walking tour of Third Reich Sites

Afternoon: independent exploration

21

Berlin

Examine the Sachsenhausen concentration camp (Most of the day)

22

Berlin

Morning: classroom discussion of our experiences in Europe

Afternoon: Independent Exploration

23

Berlin

Seminar at the House of the Wannsee

  Conference (All day)

24
Return to
 Washington,
 D.C. (Dulles
)


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