Grodno is located in the northwest corner of Belarus and represents the third largest populated city in the country.  Due to its location, it served the team as a perfect base to conduct work in both Indura and Sopotskin.  A total of seven days and seven nights were spent in the Grodno region.  When not on homestays, the group stayed in a local hotel.  On their off day, the participants took walking tours through the Grodno Ghetto with Grigory Chasid, a Holocaust survivor, attended Shabbat services at the Great Grodno Synagogue, visited the local castle, and took a walking tour with university students.  After work days, much of the free time was spent in the city.  It gave the participants a clear picture of cultural life in a post Soviet country like Belarus.

A statue of Lenin in one Grodno's main squares

Eating dinner on boat trip on Nemen River

Itinerary in Grodno

• Arrived in Grodno via bus and train from Krakow and Tykocin

• Spent evenings in Hotel Turist

• Spent first Saturday as day off due to Sabbath

• Grigory Chasid, a Holocaust survivor, shared his miraculous story

• Mr. Chasid took the group through the old Grodno Ghetto

• Toured the Great Grodno Synagogue and some attended services

• Some toured the local Grodno castles

• Met Grodno State University students and spent the afternoon and evening with them

• Worked in Indura for four days

• Went on a boat trip with university students and Jewish community members

• Danced at discotheque with university students

• Worked in Sopotskin for two days

• Traveled to Brest via bus

The Great Grodno Synagogue

Rabbi Boraz chanting in Great Grodno Synagogue

Church in Grodno

Grigory Chasid retells his Holocaust survival story of how he jumped off a train bound for Treblinka

Entrance to Hotel Turist

University Students on Boat Trip

Poland

   Auschwitz-Birkenau

   Krakow

   Tykocin

   Warsaw

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Belarus

   Cemetery Restoration

   Homestays

   Grodno

   University Students

   Brest