Schedule of events in Israel

25 March (Sunday)
1. 11:30 pm – Arrival at Ben-Gurion airport at the Lod. Departure for Tel Aviv to Adiw hotel at Mendele Mocher Sfarim 5 St.

26 March (Monday)
1. 8:00 am – Breakfast at the hotel
2. 9:00 am – Departure for the Film Archive in Tel Aviv
3. 9:30 am – Gala opening of the workshops by Marek Rozenbaum – Head of the Israel Film Academy. Meeting with Mr Alon Garbuz – Film Archive Director
4. 10:00 am – Screening of “Szkoła nr 27” [“School no. 27”] (50 min), a film by Szymon Zaleski and Marilyn Wettle (a film on the class in the Łódź-based school attended by Marek Rozenbaum)
5. 11:30 am – Screening of Orly Buium’s film “All my exxx” (17 min)
6. 12:30 pm – Departure from the Film Archive to the Tel Aviv University
7. 1:00 pm – Lunch at the cafeteria in the Gilman building
8. 2:00 pm – Opening of the workshop by Scott Uri PhD and Chaim Cohen of the Department of Polish Jews
9. 2:30 pm – Presentation of Jonathan Rozenbaum’s project - interviews
10. 3:00 pm – Presentation of Anna Traczyńska’s project – “On the Other Side” - interviews
11. 3:30 pm – Presentation of Yossi Meiri’s project – “March ’68 and its Perception in Israel” – short film
12. 4:00 pm – Presentation of Nir Dawid Zats’ project – “Cabaret Polska” performance and film
13. 4:30 pm – Presentation of Grzegorz Brzozowski’s project “Exile” – a film
14. 5:00 pm – Presentation of Abigail Liebman’s project “Communists, Universal Liberals and Secular Nationalists” – an essay
15. 5:30 pm – Presentation of Karolina Famulska’s project “Sophia Braun’s Identity Changes” – an essay
16. 6:00 pm – dinner at the cafeteria in the Gilman building
17. 7:00 pm – Presentation of Adam Szumilak’s project “March 1968" – a radio story
18. 7:30 pm – Presentation of Katarzyna Kulińska’s project “Symbolics of Souvenirs from Poland” - installation
19. 8:00 pm – A short recapitulation of the day by the committee
20. 8:30 pm – Arrival at the hotel

27 March (Tuesday)
1. 7:00 am – Breakfast at the hotel
2. 8:00 am – Departure from the hotel for the Tel Aviv University
3. 9:00 am – Meeting with Editor in Chief of “Plotkies” – lecture by Leopold Sobel entitled “Girush Polin” (“The Exile from Poland”) part 1 + slide show
4. 10:00 am – Screening of a film by A.Krakowski “Farewell to my country”
5. 12:00 pm – Coffee break
6. 12:30 pm –“Girush Polin” lecture part 2
7. 1:00 pm – Lunch
8. 2:00 pm – Screening of a film by J. Kofler “Stateless”
9. 3:00 pm – Lecture by prof. Moshe Fass “The country chosen for those who have chosen it themselves” and “Sznej jidene...” (the issue of the vanishing Jewish language)
10. 4:30 pm – Lecture by Leon Sfard “At the Crossroads”
11. 5:30 pm – Screening of a film by Fredek Łuszczyna “Babel” (20 min)
12. 6:00 pm – Dinner
13. 7:00 pm – Screening of a film by J. Dammas
14. 7:30 pm – Recapitulation of the day
15. 8:30 pm – Arrival at the hotel

28 March (Wednesday)
1. 9:00 am – Free time in the morning. Breakfast
2. 10:00 am – Departure for Jewish “Diaspora Museum”
3. 10:30 am – A tour of the Museum and an audio-visual screening
4. 1:00 pm – Arrival at the hotel
5. 1:30 pm – Lunch
6. 2:30 pm – Meeting in the hotel’s dining room with Eli Barbur, Halina Szafir – writer and manager of the library at the Polish Institute, Zofia Braun-Lewinter and Leopold Sobel
7. 5:30 pm – Dinner at the hotel
8. 6:30 pm – Departure for the home of Kora and Marek Perelstein
9. 10:00 pm – Arrival at the hotel

29 March (Thursday)
1. 8:45 am – Departure for Jerusalem
2. 10:15 am –A tour of the Yad Vashem Museum
3. 1:00 pm – Lunch
4. 2:00 pm – Tour of the Old Town (guided tour by Karolina Famulska – among other The Holy Sepulchre, the Way of the Cross and the Crying Wall
5. 6:15 pm – Departure for the Ein Karem village (just outside Jerusalem)
6. The farewell dinner at “Ein Karem Inn"
7. Arrival at the Adiw hotel in Tel Aviv

30 March (Friday)
1. 4 am – Departure for the Ben-Gurion airport
2. 6:55 am – Departure for Poland