March of the Living 1999 Itinerary

Poland

Please note: The times I give in my diary entries and the times given in the itinerary sometimes don't match up. That is because the itinerary is the official one we were given before the March, which was often subject to slight changes. Don't worry about it.

Sunday, April 11, 1999

2:00 Departure from Mirabel, Flight: LY 3556
2:45 Diary Entry
8:20 Diary Entry
15:30 Arrival in Krakow, tour market
17:25 Diary Entry
18:30 Check-in at Hotel
19:30 Dinner
19:55 Diary Entry
20:30 Wrap-up session
O/N Forum Hotel, Krakow
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Monday, April 12, 1999

8:00 Wake-up and Tefillah
8:45 Breakfast
9:30 Tour of Jewish Krakow: Kazimierz, Ghetto, Plashov
13:00 Box lunch
13:30 Continue tour
16:35 Diary Entry
18:30 Dinner at hotel
20:00 Leil Yom Hashoah Ceremony - Isaac Shul
21:30 Wrap-up sessions
23:00 Diary Entry
O/N Forum Hotel, Krakow
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Tuesday, April 13, 1999

5:30 Wake-up, Tefillah, loading
6:30 Breakfast and Check-out
7:00 Depart to Auschwitz
7:25 Diary Entry
8:00 Guided tour of Auschwitz Museum, box lunch
13:00 International March of the Living
16:00 Tour barracks at Birkenau
16:20 Diary Entry
18:00 Departure towards Lublin / Wrap-up sessions on buses
19:30 Diary Entry
21:00 Dinner
22:55 Diary Entry
O/N Lysica Hotel, Ostrowiec
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Wednesday, April 14, 1999

6:30 Wake-up and Tefillah
7:30 Breakfast
8:00 Departure
9:15 Diary Entry
9:30 Lublin Cemetary and Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin
11:30 Box lunch on grounds of Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin
12:30 Tour of Majdanik Camp
14:05 My Poem, Echoes
16:00 Departure to Bialystok, Wrap-up on buses
17:35 Diary Entry
20:00 Arrival in Bialystok, Dinner
00:40 Diary Entry
O/N Golebiewski Hotel, Bialystok
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Thursday, April 15, 1999

6:30 Wake-up and Tefillah
7:30 Breakfast
8:15 Departure to Tikochyn
8:45 Diary Entry
9:15 Tour of Tikochyn, cemetery (clean-up) and Lopatow
12:30 Box Lunch
13:00 Depart to Treblinka, Tour of Treblinka
15:15 Diary Entry
17:00 Departure to Warsaw, Wrap-up sessions on buses
18:35 Diary Entry
19:30 Dinner in Warsaw
O/N Europejski Hotel, Warsaw

Friday, April 16, 1999

6:30 Wake-up and Tefillah (Rosh Chodesh)
7:30 Breakfast
8:05 Diary Entry
8:15 Departure to Gesia Cemetary
12:00 Box Lunch
12:30 Warsaw Ghetto (not Umschlagplatz), Old Warsaw, time permitting
15:45 Diary Entry
17:00 Return to Hotel and preparation for Shabbat dinner
17:25 Diary Entry
19:30 Kabbalat Shabbat (services in hotel)
20:30 Dinner
O/N Europejski Hotel, Warsaw

Saturday, April 17, 1999

8:30 Wake-up and breakfast
9:15 Walk to Nozyk Synagogue for Torah reading and Mussaf, Kiddush by Lauder Foundation
13:00 Full lunch at Europejski Hotel
14:00 Discussion with Jewish Polish teens in Madrich groups in conference hall
15:00 Mifgashim with European / South American MOL delegation
18:00 Mincha services in conference hall
18:30 Full seudah shilshit at the Victoria Hotel
19:05 Diary Entry
20:00 Depart to Umschlagplatz by bus for Havdalah
21:00 Return to Hotel to pac
1:15 Departure to Israel, LY 3566