The study program also included a historical tour through Poland and visit to the former Warsaw ghetto, the Jewish Museum in Warsaw as well as educational expeditions through memorial sites and concentration camp vestiges including those at Treblinka, Tykocin, and Łopuchowo, Majdanek, Auschwitz I and Birkenau. The trip began with the group traveling to Munich, Dachau and Nuremberg where the group explored the buildings which once housed the Nazi headquarters and documentation centers as well as the White Rose Pavement Memorial, a cobblestone replica of pamphlets paying tribute to the ones passed out by the courageous White Rose student group that had resisted Nazi ideology during World War II. Noted historian Robert Jan van Pelt, one of the world’s leading experts on the Holocaust, served as the accompanying scholar for the European Study Program.
The program is a high-level, intensive and immersive educational experience that includes visits to concentration camps, ghetto sites and Holocaust memorials. Through lectures and visits to actual Holocaust sites these educators gained a more profound understanding of the complex and tragic history of the Holocaust. states as participants in its 2023 European Study Program in Germany and Poland from July 1st -July 15. The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous has selected 12 middle and high school teachers and Holocaust center personnel from five U.S.
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