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Auschwitz/Birkenau Excursion - CVOL0096
Title: Exkurse Auschwitz/Birkenau
Guaranteed by: Department of Medical Ethics and Humanities 3FM CU (12-UET)
Faculty: Third Faculty of Medicine
Actual: from 2019
Semester: summer
Points: 3
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/22, C [HT]
Extent per academic year: 22 [hours]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (51)
Min. number of students: 25
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech, English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
Guarantor: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D.
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (23.01.2019)
Auschwitz/Birkenau 2019 friday, March, 29 - sunday, March, 31 Dear All, we would like to invite you to join us to visit Krakow and Auschwitz in Poland as a part of our ethics courses. We shall travel to Krakow for the weekend of March 29 – March, 31, 2019, and included in the fee (2000 Kc at the most, probably a little bit less, depending on the number of participants and exchange rate) is travel by bus, accommodation in Oświęcim for the first night and in Krakow’s Momotown Hostel for the second night (with breakfast), and the entrance fee for the Auschwitz/Birkenau Memorial and Museum. There will be plenty of opportunities for socializing and Krakow sightseeing. Schedule Friday, March 29, 2019 before 15,00 meeting in front of the faculty + collection of the money. 15.00 departure from the Faculty building - please be prepared for a long journey by bus... 22.00 arrival to Centrum Dialogu i Modlitwy w Oświęcimiu ul. M. Kolbego 1, 32-602 Oświęcim Saturday, March 30, 2019 Visit to Auschwitz/Birkenau Memorial and Museum with english speaking guide Lecture delivered by Teresa Wontor - Cichy: Medical Crimes. The Experiments in Auschwitz. The lecture is organized by International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust. The lecture will be delivered in english. Travel to Krakow - evening in the city - castle, Klezmer, pub - whatever... Krakow, Momotown hostel (www.momotownhostel.com Sunday, March 31, 2019 Krakow sightseeing (individually) 12.00 departure from Momotown hostel 19.00 arrival to Prague The overall fee (bus, hostel and breakfast, entrance fee to the Memorial) should not exceed 2000 Kč. Your responsibility for the journey is valid passport and valid Visa for Poland (non-EEA countries). N.B. As this is not an official University-sponsored event, you are responsible for your own health/travel insurance. For further information please contact Marek Vacha, Department of Ethics and Humanities. Please be prepared for a long bus drive. On the way back, we are going to watch Schindler’s list. Marek Vácha Department of Ethics and Humanities Marek.Vacha@lf3.cuni.cz tel: +420 777 24 23 97
Aim of the course -
Last update: Tomáš Pajl (20.01.2015)

To see in site the result of the most terrifying experiment of applied eugenics in 20th century.

Literature -
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (23.01.2019)

Suggested readings:

Elie Wiesel: Night

Elie Wiesel: All rivers Run to Sea. And the Sea is Never Full.

Imre Kertesz: Fatelessness (Fateless)

Imre Kertesz: Kaddish for an Unborn Child (Kaddish for a Child Not Born)

Primo Levi: If this is a Man

Hannah Arendt: Eichman in Jerusalem. A Report on the Banality of Evil.

Zygmunt Bauman: Modernity and Holocaust

English Bookstores in Prague

Anagram - Týn 4, Praha 1

Big Ben - Malá Štupartská 5, Praha 1

Shakespeare and Sons - Kampa, Praha 1

Additional resources:

www.holocaust.cz

www.shoah.de

www.yadvashem.org

www.ushmm.org

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: Tomáš Pajl (20.01.2015)

Active attendance

Syllabus -
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (23.01.2019)
Auschwitz/Birkenau 2019
friday, March, 29 - sunday, March, 31

Dear All,

we would like to invite you to join us to visit Krakow and Auschwitz in Poland as a part of our ethics courses. We shall travel to Krakow for the weekend of March 29 - March, 31, 2019, and included in the fee (2000 Kc at the most, probably a little bit less, depending on the number of participants and exchange rate) is travel by bus, accommodation in Oświęcim for the first night and in Krakow’s Momotown Hostel for the second night (with breakfast), and the entrance fee for the Auschwitz/Birkenau Memorial and Museum. There will be plenty of opportunities for socializing and Krakow sightseeing.

Schedule

Friday, March 29, 2019

before 15,00 meeting in front of the faculty + collection of the money.

15.00 departure from the Faculty building - please be prepared for a long journey by bus...

22.00 arrival to Centrum Dialogu i Modlitwy w Oświęcimiu ul. M. Kolbego 1, 32-602 Oświęcim

Saturday, March 30, 2019

Visit to Auschwitz/Birkenau Memorial and Museum with english speaking guide

Lecture delivered by Teresa Wontor - Cichy: Medical Crimes. The Experiments in Auschwitz.

The lecture is organized by International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust. The lecture will be delivered in english.

Travel to Krakow - evening in the city - castle, Klezmer, pub - whatever...

Krakow, Momotown hostel (www.momotownhostel.com

Sunday, March 31, 2019

Krakow sightseeing (individually)

12.00 departure from Momotown hostel

19.00 arrival to Prague

The overall fee (bus, hostel and breakfast, entrance fee to the Memorial) should not exceed 2000 Kč.

Your responsibility for the journey is valid passport and valid Visa for Poland (non-EEA countries).

N.B. As this is not an official University-sponsored event, you are responsible for your own health/travel insurance.

For further information please contact Marek Vacha, Department of Ethics and Humanities.

Please be prepared for a long bus drive. On the way back, we are going to watch Schindler’s list.

Marek Vácha

Department of Ethics and Humanities

Marek.Vacha@lf3.cuni.cz

tel: +420 777 24 23 97

 
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