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9 days / 8 nights
Discover the Jewish Heritage in Poland, known as the cultural and spiritual centre of European Jews. Learn about the history of Polish Jews: Arthur Rubinstein, Wladyslaw Szpilman, Ludwik Zamenhof, Helena Rubinstein (the creator of the cosmetics brand) and much more.
Day 2 |
> Warsaw |
Breakfast at your hotel.
In the morning sightseeing of Warsaw. The City Tour allows us to immerse ourselves in and observe the many contrasts of the Polish capital city. The tour starts with a walk around the Lazienki Royal Park. Here we will see the famous monument dedicated to Frederic Chopin, the Palace on the Water and the Theater on the Island. We will continue with transfer to the Old Town (UNESCO) and a short walk around the Old Town: from the Royal Castle, passing next to the Saint John Cathedral, the Market Square and the barbacane to the New Town. We will continue to the Krasinski Palace, the Supreme Court bulding. Our itinerary will continue with the Grand Theatre and the National Opera, the Jablonowscy Palace, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the Saxon Garden.
In the afternoon sightseeing of Warsaw Jewish part. From the 11th century till the beginning of the World War II, Poland was known as the cultural and spiritual centre of European Jews. Many of the Polish Jews gained the fame all around the world. As examples we can mention: Arthur Rubinstein, Wladyslaw Szpilman (his story is the base of the Polanski’s movie “The Pianist”). During your trip around Warsaw you will have a chance to see parts of old Jewish Warsaw, synagogue, kirkut (cemetery) and other places connected with the rich history and traditions of Polish Jews as well as the monuments commemorationg martyrdom of Jews during WWII and Jewish Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Accommodation in a centrally located hotel in Warsaw.
Day 3 |
> Warsaw > Treblinka > Warsaw |
Breakfast at your hotel.
In the morning excursion to Treblinka to see the museum in the former concentration and extermination camp built by the Germans in the Polish lands during the second world war. In just 16 months when the camp in Treblinka was in operation, it is estimated that almost 800,000 people were killed in its gas chambers, which makes it the second-largest Nazi death camp apart from Auschwitz.
Continue to Tykocin, a charming city with a special atmosphere. Today it looks exactly like before World War II. One can still admire king’s castle, 18th century monastery and church, astonishing 17th century synagogue as well as wooden houses more than 100 years old. The Jewish community was formed here in 16th century and it constituted a great cultural center, becoming one of the largest Jewish communities in Poland. The synagogue of Tykocin is the second largest synagogue in Poland after that one in Krakow.
Stop in nearby Lopuchowo forest, where the Jewish community of Tykocin was murdered. It holds mass graves of 2.500 inhabitants.
Accommodation in a hotel centrally located in Warsaw.
Day 4 |
> Warsaw > Lodz > Warsaw |
Breakfast at your hotel.
1 day trip from Warsaw to Lodz.
Get to know the history of Jews of Lodz – once one of the biggest Jewish society in Poland. Stop by the Radegast station, the final point of trains transporting Jews from western European countries and provincial ghettos from Wartheland. See the Jewish cemetery, the largest Jewish necropolis in Poland. Pass the Children’s Martyrdom Monument, also called the monument of the Broken Heart, dedicated to Polish children who died or were murdered while being imprisoned in the camp in Przemysłowa Street. Take a rest in the Survivors’ Park commemorating the liquidation of the ghetto and stop under one of over 600 “memory trees” planted by those who survived the Litzmannstadt Ghetto. Visit the only remaining pre-war synagogue – Reicher synagogue which survived the times of occupation as a salt warehouse. Discover the renovated industrial complex of the Manufaktura, belonged to a Jewish businessman Israel Poznanski with an open-air plaza surrounded by large brick buildings and the longest stretch of fountains in Europe. At the end take a walk along Piotrkowska Street, a popular avenue full of shops, pubs, restaurants, and sculptures that commemorate famous inhabitants of Lodz and learn from your guide what else you can discover on your own after this tour.
Transfer back to Warsaw.
Accommodation in a hotel centrally located in Warsaw.
Day 5 |
> Warsaw > Lublin > Warsaw |
Breakfast at your hotel.
Transfer from Warsaw to Lublin.
Get to know the history of Lublin Jews. Go through a Memorial Trail of Lublin Jews, that commemorates places related to the tragic history of the Jewish community and marks the borders of the ghetto in Podzamcze and the last road of Lublin Jews to Umschlagplatz, from where about 28,000 people were transported to the death camp in Bełżec. Hear about a world that no longer exists. See the Lublin castle, the Grodzka Gate (called also the Jewish Gate), Chewra Nosim Synagogue — the only preserved pre-war Jewish temple, the Old Jewish Cemetery, and the former Academy of the Sages of Lublin – currently hotel and synagogue. Finally visit the Majdanek State Museum – the former German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp. Enjoy the most important places for Jewish history in Lublin and learn from your guide what else you can discover on your own after this tour.
Accommodation in a hotel centrally located in Lublin.
Day 6 |
> Lublin > Lezajsk > Krakow |
Breakfast at your hotel.
Transfer from Lublin to Lezajsk.
Lezajsk, a city located in the valley of the San River in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship. It is here that Hasidim Jews from all over the world come to pray at the tomb of Tzadik Elimelech who lived in the 18th century. They believe that Tzaddik Elimelech, on the anniversary of his death, descends from heaven and takes to God their prayers for health, well-being for children and success at work. They write them down on pieces of paper called quote and place them at the grave. Prayers are accompanied by traditional dances and singing psalms. Every year the tomb is visited by about 2.5 thousand believers.
Further transfer to Krakow.
Accommodation in a hotel centrally located in Krakow.
Day 7 |
> Krakow |
Breakfast at your hotel.
In the morning sightseeing of Krakow — the cultural capital of Poland with Old Town listed as UNESCO Heritage. During the tour you would see Barbican and defensive walls with Florian’s Gate, the Main Market Square with Sukiennice Cloth Hall, St Mary’s Church and Town Hall Tower. We would proceed to the Jagiellonian University, pass by Archbishop Palace (where John Paul II used to live) as well as St Andrew’s Church and St Peter and Paul’s Church to reach the Wawel Hill.
In the afternoon we will explore Krakow Kazimierz Jewish District known from Schindler’s List. Kazimierz used to be a separate town close to medieval city of Krakow. It was mostly populated by Jewish community. Throughout years it became Krakow’s district, but the abundance of markets, synagogues and kirkuts (Jewish cemeteries) shaped character of this part of town. As Kazimierz depicts the history of Polish Jews, some shots of Steven Spielberg Schindler’s List were captured here. During this tour you would discover this charming part of Krakow with its monuments and complexed history.
Accommodation in a hotel centrally located in Krakow.
Day 8 |
> Krakow > Auschwitz-Birkenau > Wieliczka > Krakow |
Breakfast at your hotel.
Transfer to Oswiecim (Auschwitz).
All over the world, Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror, genocide and the Holocaust. It was established by the Nazis in 1940, in the suburbs of the city of Oswiecim (Auschwitz in German) which, like other parts of Poland, was occupied by the Germans during the Second World War. A visit to concentration and extermination camp museum might help you to comprehend what incomprehensible.
Transfer from Krakow to Wieliczka the most beautiful and the oldest operating salt mine in the world (UNESCO Heritage). From over 700 years it was a source of Polish fortune and a physical fundament of culture. Today Wieliczka is the most willingly visited Polish tourist object with magnificent chapels, charming underground lakes and original tools and equipment. During this tour you could see a number of excavated chambers on 3 levels adorned with beautiful sculptures made of salt as well as a salt museum. Transfer back to Krakow.
Accommodation in a hotel centrally located in Krakow.
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