Year Course Journey To Poland - קומה
FZY offers an educational, enriching and meaningful opportunity to travel to Poland on the Year Course Kuma Journey.
The Journey has three main goals:
- To explore the rich heritage of 1000 years of Jewish history in Poland and to find its relevance in our lives today.
- To explore the events of the Shoah (Holocaust) through a Zionist prism and to bear witness to the destruction of Polish Jewry.
- To understand our responsibility as young Jews today towards the world in which we live.
We call the trip Kuma which means “arise”. Kuma is from a verse in the Tanach (Bible) which states Kuma V’Nashuva El Imanu (Arise and Let Us Return to Our Own People).
Kuma will take in February / March.
...............................................................................................................................................
Itinerary
Below is a sample schedule of the main parts of the Kuma programme. Each year we evaluate the programme and generally add new components so please note that the schedule is subject to change.
DAY 1 | Theme: Warsaw Remnants of the Past
Tel-Aviv – Warsaw
- Warsaw Sites: Okopowa St. Jewish Cemetery, Jewish Historical Museum, Umschlagplatz Memorial
DAY 2 | Theme: Shtetl-What was Lost!
- Tykochin Shtetl Sites: Town Synagogue (text study), Old Jewish Market Square, Lupochowa Forest (Site of Mass Graves)
- Treblinka Extermination Camp Memorial: Tour and Ceremony
DAY 3 | Theme: Auto-Emancipation
- Warsaw Sites: Ghetto Wall Remnant, Ghetto Heroes Walk, Rappaport Memorial
Travel to Lublin
- Lublin Sites: Majdanek Extermination Camp Museum and Memorial: Tour and Ceremony
- Yeshivat Chochemei Lublin
DAY 4 | Theme: “There Once was a World”
Travel to Krakow through Galicia
- Galicia Sites: Gravesite of Hasidic Master Rebbe Elimelech of Lezajsk, Tarnow, Zbilitowska Gura (Site of Mass Graves)
DAY 5 | Theme: Final Solution
Travel to Oswiecim
- Auschwitz Extermination Camp Museum and Memorial:
Tour of Birkenau, Ceremony Destroyed Site of Gas Chamber #5
- Tour of Auschwitz 1 Polish National Museum
- Krakow- Shabbat in the Old Jewish Quarter: Kabbalat Shabbat in Kupa Synagogue
DAY 6 | Theme: “Shabbat HaYom….”
- Shaharit Rema Synagogue, Walking Tour of Krakow Synagogues, Shabbat Session, Shabbat Rest
- Walking Tour of Valvel Castle and Park
- Seudah Shlishit - Krakow Style, Havdalah
- Yiddish and Folklore night
DAY 7 | Theme: Memory and Meaning
- Krakow Sites: Old Krakow Cemetery (16th Century) Krakow Ghetto Wall, Schindler’s Factory
- Site of Plaszow Concentration Camp Tour and Ceremony
- Slowkow Kibbutz Hachshara
Leave for Warsaw International Airport
DAY 8 | Theme: Coming Home
Warsaw – Tel-Aviv
Arrival Jerusalem
- Straight to the Old City of Jerusalem- and the Kotel
- Messibat Siyum Breakfast Judaean Youth Hostel
There is an additional cost for Kuma. |
