4 March – Friday
10 a.m. – PSU Fleet Services van leaves State College (parking lot behind Burrowes Building) for Dulles airport
5:20 p.m. Depart Washington, D.C. on United flight 915
5 March – Saturday
6:55 a.m. Arrive Paris (Roissy airport CDG) – transfer to hotel
Newhotel Candide***/3 rue Pétion/75011 Paris/T: +33 (0) 1 43 79 02 33
http://www.new-hotel.com/fr/hotels-paris/candide
6 March – Sunday
9h30 a.m.-1 p.m.- Walking tour of the Marais and surrounding areas with our guide, Flora Goldenberg (meet at Charlemagne statue in front of Notre-Dame)
Lunch in the Marais
[Visit to the memorial at the former site of the Vélodrome d’hiver]
or
[VIist to the Ecole de la rue de Tlemcen and neighboring Belleville]
7 March – Monday
8:55 a.m. Guided tour of the Mémorial de la Shoah with Philippe BOUKARA
11-1-Testimony by and discussion with Bernard Herz, a French Holocaust survivor, at the Mémorial
5:00-6:30 – Discussion at the Mémorial de la Shoah with Frida Wattenberg, former member of Organisation juive de Combat (Jewish Resistance movement)
Dinner with filmmaker David Drach
8 March – Tuesday
10 a.m.: Meeting and discussion with Esther Senot, a survivor of Birkenau camp, organized by the Union des Déportés d’Auschwitz (39, boulevard Beaumarchais)
2:30 p.m. Visit to Mont-Valérien, Haut-lieu de la mémoire nationale (Frida Wattenberg’s former teacher, Renée Lévy, is buried there)
9 March – Wednesday
9h-1:00 – visit and walking tour with Flora Goldenberg: Père-Lachaise cemetery (with emphasis on deportation memorial monuments) and the Panthéon (with emphasis on the plaque for ‘Les Justes”)
Lunch in the Latin Quarter
1:30 – Discussion with Pierre Birnbaum, historian and sociologist, Professeur emeritus of political sociology at Université de Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, and a specialist in the history of French Jewry – meet at Café Le Rostand, 6, place Edmond Rostand.
10 March – Thursday
10:00-11:30 – Visit to the Mémorial de la Shoah in Drancy
6:00 p.m. Screening of film, Serge et Beate Klarsfeld: Guerillos de la mémoire and discussion with filmmaker Elisabeth Lenchener, at her home
Final group dinner
11 March – Friday
[Meeting with Marceline Loridan-Ivens – to be confirmed]
3:00 – Visit and discussion with Serge and Beate Klarsfeld
Group dinner (place TBA)
12 March – Saturday
Departure for the States on United flight 914 (leaves Roissy-CDG airport at 11:55) or other points in Europe
3:25 p.m. Arrive Washington D.C. (Dulles)
5:00 Return to State College in PSU Fleet services van (drop-off parking lot behind Burrowes Building)