Oct

17 2021

Poland in 1939 A Virtual Tour with Mike Hollander

1:00PM - 2:30PM  

Congregation Beth Israel 701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119

Contact Congregation Israel
8602338215
rosenbaum@cbict.org
http://cbict.org

In 1939, this country was the epicenter of Ashkenazi Jewry. So many of our Jewish ideas and so much of culture comes from here, in where 10% of the pre-WWII population was Jewish. This virtual journey will go to Warsaw, Krakow, and Auschwitz-Birkenau, and will touch upon 3 central themes - 1,000 years of Jewish life in Poland, the period of the Shoah from 1939-45, and the complicated post-WWII to the present period of resuscitation of Jewish life in Poland, as well as the strengthening of ties between Israel and Poland.
Led by popular history tour lecturer Mike Hollander