In July 2023, Centropa will bring 70 teachers from 17 countries to walk the streets of history, learn from scholars and journalists, and design cross-cultural projects for their students.

 

In Vienna, we will:

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• stand before the car Archduke Franz Ferdinand was riding in when he was assassinated in 1914 and engage with historians on the origins of the First World War

• marvel at Gustav Klimt’s great gold painted masterpieces and discuss Vienna’s golden age

• take walking tours through Vienna’s Jewish quarter while listening to podcasts of Kindertransport refugees who fled for their lives and discuss with historians the Holocaust in Vienna

• attend Friday evening sabbath services in Vienna’s grand Stadttempel, which turns 200 in 2023.

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In Prague we will:

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• tour the synagogues of the Jewish Museum

• visit the old Jewish cemetery and the ’new’ Jewish cemetery, where Franz Kafka is buried

• engage with historians about the Cold War and  the fall of Communism
   

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In Terezin we will:

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• use Centropa’s new walking tour app in which 20 survivors of Terezin will paint an audio picture of what it was like to live in this hellish place

• discuss how to use Centropa’s Terezin stories in your classroom

• learn about the children of Terezin and how they fought back in the only way they could: with poetry and art

• meet with renowned conductor Murry Sidlin and the team of the Defiant Requiem Foundation and learn how to use this remarkable program in your classroom