Remembrance and Reconciliation, Inc.
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REMEMBERING THE JEWS OF PRZEMYSL
"Bereshit in Przemysl"
October 20-22, 2006
 
Sponsors:
 
Remembrance and Reconciliation, Inc. (USA)
 
Panstwowa Wyzsza Szkola Wschodnioeuropejska (Przemysl)

 
Co-Chairpersons:
 
Zdzislaw Budzynski, John Hartman, Michael Traison

 Honorary Co-Chairpersons:
 
Lukasz Biedka, Roza Fellner, Joachim Glettner, Marek Obler, Jacek Szwic


Invited Clergy:
 
Archbishop Jozef Michalik, Father Stanislaw Bartminski, Father Bogdan Stepan, Rabbi Michael Schudrich


 Special Guests:
 
President Robert Choma, (Przemysl)
 
Ambassador David Peleg (Israel)
 
Janusz Kurtyka, President, Institute of National Memory (Warsaw)

 
Honorary Sponsors:
 
Adam Cardinal Maida, Archdiocese of Detroit (USA)
 
Ania Bien, De Amsterdamse Vrouwengroup (Netherlands)
 
Katarzyna Bednarz, Przemysl Public Library
 
Stanislaw Stepien, Director, Poludniowo-Wschodni Instytut Naukowy (Przemysl)
 
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor to the President of the United States (USA)
 
Cardinal William Keeler, Archdiocese of Baltimore and Head, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USA)

Thaddeus Radzilowski, Council of Jewish-Americans-Polish Americans, American Jewish Committee (USA)

         Monika Krawczyk, Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland (Warsaw)

    Walter Cardinal Kasper, Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews (Vatican City)

Mariusz J. Olbromski, Museum Narodowe Ziemi Przeyskiej, (Przemysl)
 
Wieslaw J. Jermacz, Director, Hotel Gromada (Przemysl)

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Schedule of Events:
     

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2006
     
 
9:00-14:00    

International Conference: Lost Nation: The Jews of Przemysl and the Polish Landscape. Panstwowa Wyzsza Szkola Wschodnioeuropejska.
     
Featured Speaker, Janusz Kurtyka, President, Institute of National Remembrance     

13:00-14:00    

Arrival and registration check-in at hotels
       
14:00-15:00    

Preparation for Shabbat
       
Art Exhibition: The Work of A. Bien, Gromada Hotel
  
15:00    

Meet at the Scheinbach Synagogue, Przemysl Town Library, Slowackiego St.   

Introductory Speeches    

Professor John J. Hartman, Executive Director, Remembrance and Reconciliation, Moderator
     
President Robert Choma, President, City of Przemysl
     
Michael Traison, Principal, Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone International    
         
Ambassador David Peleg, State of Israel
     
Father Stanislaw Bartminski, Parish of Krasiczyn
     
Other special guests
 
About 17:00    

Candle Lighting and Shabbat Service - Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich
 
18:30-20:30    

Kosher Shabbat Meal, Gromada Hotel

Birkat Hamazon
       
20:30    

Oneg Shabbat
     

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2006
 
8:30-11:00    

Shabbat Service, Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich Maftir, Yaakov Finkelstein, Embassy of Israel
   
11:00-13:00     

Kosher Lunch, Gromada Hotel
       
12:00-14:00    

Lecture Prof. Feliks Tych, Jewish Historical Institute (Warsaw)
       
14:00-16:00    

Walking tour of Jewish Przemysl - Lukasz Biedka and Jacek Szwic                
    
Photographic Display of Destroyed Renaissance Synagogue by Jacek Swicz
                     
16:00-18:30    

Mincha, seuda shelishit and aravit
       
18:30    

Havdala
       
19:00

Lecture by Dr. Grazyna Pawlak on Rabbi Moses Schorr
     
Lecture by Michael Traison on Jewish Observance
     
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2006
 
8:30-9:30     

Shachrit and Breakfast, Gromada Hotel
       
10:00    

Buses to New Jewish cemetery, Slowackiego Street

10:30-12:00    

Interfaith ceremony, New Jewish cemetery
 
14:00    

Departure and good-byes

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