Exploring The Traces Of Jewish Culture in Poland Tour
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Tour ID:
1116 Tour Theme: Historic and Cultural Tours Regions: Warsaw, Krakow Duration: 9 Days / 8 Nights |
Introduction:
On this tour your private guide will take you on a journey to visit the Jewish Heritage in Poland. Jewish settlement in Poland goes back to the 13th century. By the Second World War there were about three and a half million Jews living in Poland. Under Nazi occupation during World War II this population was practically wiped out and its cultural development abruptly stopped. Only a handful of synagogues, Jewish cemeteries and art treasures survived. By sheer miracle one of the Jewish monuments to survive Shoah was the 15th-century synagogue
in Krakow, along with a number of other buildings in the city's Jewish quarter, Kazimierz. Other synagogues which were saved are to be seen in Rzeszow, Lancut, Lesko, Tykocin, Kielce, Lodz, Kazimierz Dolny, Nowy Sacz, and Zamosc, and cemeteries and secular buildings in Krakow, Wroclaw, Lublin, and Lodz..
Explore The Traces Of Jewish Culture of Poland with a local tour guide!!!
Day by Day Itinerary:
Option A: 9 Days / 8 Nights
Day 1:
ROUTING: WARSAW
- Arrival to Warsaw
- transfer to a hotel
- Enjoy a drive through the city en route to dinner in the hotel restaurant.
- Overnight in Warsaw
Day 2:
ROUTING: WARSAW - KRAKOW
- Guided city tour of Warsaw, with focus on places connected with Jewish culture and religion (Ghetto Heroes' Monument, Umschlagplatz).
- Afternoon drive to Krakow and check in your hotel
- Dinner in the hotel restaurant
- Overnight in Krakow
Day 3:
ROUTING: KRAKOW
- All-day city sightseeing of Krakow and its Jewish quarter, Kazimierz. Remuh Synagogue and Cemetery in Miodowa Street; Poper, Ajzyk (Isaac), Tempel, and Wysoka (High) Synagogues; Jewish Hospital and School; Mikvah ritual bath-house; *possibility of program extension for the "Schindler's List" Route; Plac Bohaterow Getta; "Apteka pod Orlem" chemists' shop; Lipowa street/Schindler's Enamel Factory; Lasota Hill with view onto the site of former Plaszow labour camp; dinner in a restaurant, concert of Jewish music;
- Overnight in Krakow
Day 4:
ROUTING: KRAKOW - AUSCHWITZ - KRAKOW
- Departure for the town of Auschwitz, and visit to the former concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau; visit to the camp site.
- Afternoon free in Krakow to explore on your own.
- Dinner in the hotel restaurant
- Overnight in Krakow
Day 5:
ROUTING: KRAKOW - NOWY SACZ
- Departure for Bobowa, town which once had a wealthy Jewish community, domicile of Rabbi Halberstamm; 18th-century synagogue; followed by Nowy Sacz, with l7th-century synagogue (now housing an art gallery), and 19th-century Jewish cemetery with extant tombstone of Rabbi Bencjon Halberstamm.
- Dinner and overnight stay in Nowy Sacz.
Day 6:
ROUTING: NOWY SACZ - SANOK
- Departure for Gorlice (Jewish cemetery, two synagogues); Dukla and Rymanow (fortified synagogue) to Sanok.
- Dinner and overnight stay in Sanok.
Day 7:
ROUTING: SANOK - RZESZOW
- Departure for Lesko (a synagogue and Jewish cemetery); Przemysl (a visit to Jewish cultural exhibition in a local Museum, and to a Jewish cemetery).
- Arrival in Rzeszow for dinner and overnight in Rzeszow.
Day 8:
ROUTING: RZESZOW
- Departure for Tyczyn (grave of Rabbi Szlomolajbele); return to Rzeszow to visit two synagogues and a Jewish cemetery.
- Dinner and overnight stay in Rzeszow
Day 9:
ROUTING: RZESZOW - WARSAW
- Return to Warsaw; farewell; return flight.
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Option B: 12 Days / 11 Nights
Days 1-8: as in Option A
Day 9:
ROUTING: RZESZOW
- Departure for Sokolow Malopolski (Jewish cemetery), Leajsk (grave of Elimelech, only object in Europe in its category to have survived intact).
- Return to Rzeszow for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 10:
ROUTING: RZESZOW - LUBLIN
- Departure for Belzec (a site of the former concentration camp), arrival in Lublin; sightseeing of synagogue; Synagogue of the Holy Brotherhood; old Jewish cemetery and the site of former concentration camp at Majdanek;
- Dinner and overnight in Lublin.
Day 11:
ROUTING: LUBLIN - WARSAW
- Departure for the site of Treblinka, a former concentration camp where the Jews of Warsaw died.
- Arrival in Warsaw for dinner and overnight.
Day 12:
ROUTING: WARSAW
Departure for the airport; farewell and return flight.
END OF TOUR SERVICES
**Further route variants available on request. A packed lunch is usually supplied by the hotel providing breakfast. Restaurants in large towns will serve kosher meals on request. Meeting with a local Jewish community is available.
Prices, Dates & What's Included:
Prices available upon request...
The Tour Includes:
- 8 or 11 nights accommodation with (B) Breakfast
- English-Speaking Specialist driver and guide for the tours described in the itinerary
- Private transfers in and out
- Local Taxes
Not Included:
- Airfare
- Alcoholic drinks
- Gratuities
- Extra charges of hotel, eg. Laundry, telephone or fax charges, room service, etc..
- Insurance
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