Poland Trip

Each year Midreshet HaRova gives the students the chance to travel with their friends, teachers and Rabbis on a deeply meaningful and inspiring week-long trip to Poland.

We show the girls, first-hand, the horrors of the Holocaust, visiting concentration and death camps including Treblinka, Majdanek, Belzec and Auschwitz Birkenau, and the sites of ghettos and villages in Poland which were completely destroyed, with an emphasis the "organization", efficiency and unimaginable cruelty of the Nazi Death machine. 

We introduce the girls to the richness and diversity of Pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry.
The girls are shown a typical Polish village in Tycocin; they visit the various Synagogues in Krakow, including the Rema, the Isaac and the Temple; they visit the graves of Chassidic greats.  Girls visit the Warsaw Cemetery, studying the lives of generations of Polish Jewry, whether Chassidic masters or Jewish community leaders.  Through developing an understanding of the history of Polish Jewry, the girls begin to truly understand the tragedy of what was lost.

We place much emphasis on the development of Chassidut.
Visits to Lizansk (Rav Elimelech), Lublin (the Seer of Lublin), Pshischa (The Yehudi HaKadosh, Rav Simcha Bunim) and Kotsk, finishing off in Gur (Chidushei HaRim and Sfat Emet), give the girls a clear sense of the place of Chassidut in the world that was.

The Midrasha trip to Poland begins and ends at the Kotel – a place most Jews only dreamt of visiting - with the waving of Israeli flags and the singing of "עם ישראל חי" , infusing students with a sense of Jewish pride and the importance of our presence in Israel in ensuring our future.   

The trip to Poland has a tremendous impact on the students and for many is a turning point in the development of a committed and clear sense of Jewish and Zionist identity.

We take the Poland trip extremely seriously, and to that extent subsidize the journey by about forty-five percent, charging less than one-quarter of the price charged by other organizations for an all-inclusive trip including not only flights, hotels, food and tour, but also ten obligatory preparation meetings prior to the trip.  Since this is a trip of a lifetime, we feel students must be fully prepared with the necessary background knowledge in order to truly benefit.

The Poland trip is open to a maximum of fifty-five students on a first-come first-served basis.  Midreshet HaRova strives to ensure that all students, irrespective of financial ability, have the opportunity to join the Poland trip.