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Auschwitz/Birkenau Excursion 2014 - CVOL1006
Title: Exkurse Auschwitz/Birkenau
Guaranteed by: Department of Medical Ethics and Humanities 3FM CU (12-UET)
Faculty: Third Faculty of Medicine
Actual: from 2014 to 2014
Semester: winter
Points: 3
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/22, C [HT]
Extent per academic year: 22 [hours]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (50)
Min. number of students: 25
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Guarantor: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D.
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Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
Last update: Mgr. Barbora Řebíková, Ph.D. (01.09.2023)
Dear All. we would like to invite you to join us to visit Krakow and Auschwitz in Poland as a part of ethics courses. We shall travel to Krakow for the weekend of November 28-30, 2014, and included in the fee (1800 Kc) is travel by bus, accommodation in Krakow’s Momotown Hostel with breakfast, and the entrance fee for the Auschwitz/Birkenau Memorial and Museum. There will be plenty of opportunities for socializing and Krakow sightseeing.
Aim of the course -
Last update: Mgr. Barbora Řebíková, Ph.D. (01.09.2023)

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

Literature -
Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (06.08.2012)

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:

http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/m/

www.holocaust.cz

www.shoah.de

www.yadvashem.org

www.ushmm.org

 

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (06.08.2012)

Active attendance

Syllabus -
Last update: Mgr. Barbora Řebíková, Ph.D. (01.09.2023)

Schedule

Friday, 

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

            21.00 arrival to Krakow, Momotown hostel (www.momotownhostel.com)

 

Saturday, 

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

Lecture of Dr Alicja Białecka: Medical Crimes. The Experiments in Auschwitz.                           

The lecture is organized by International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust

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

 

Sunday,

            Krakow sightseeing

            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 1800 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 Dr Marek Vacha, Ethics Department.

 

For application please email to Krakow2013@email.cz

 

Please be prepared for a long bus drive - you are welcome to bring dvd’s of your favourite movies, that we might watch in addition to Schindler’s list.

 

Marek Vácha

Ústav etiky

Marek.Vacha@lf3.cuni.cz

tel: +420 777 24 23 97

 
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