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REMEMBERING
THE JEWS OF 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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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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