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Day 1
Arrival in Warsaw, transfer from the airport to the hotel, check-in, welcome dinner in hotel’s restaurant or, alternatively, in one of fine restaurants in Warsaw’s Old Town
Day 2 – Warsaw
A full day city tour of Warsaw, following the footsteps of Jewish history and culture:
The Monument of Warsaw Ghetto Heroes that expresses the tragedy of the Ghetto (where German chancellor Willy Brandt unexpectedly knelt down in 1970)
Umschlagplatz Wall, from where, in 1942, 300 000 people were deported in cattle trucks for Treblinka concentration camp where they were gassed upon arrival,
Zamenhof Street, the remains of Nalewki Street, which once teemed with business life,
Miła Street, including the bunker where the commander of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Mordechai Anielewicz, committed suicide,
Jewish Cemetery, where Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto language, is buried,
Nożyk Synagogue, the only remaining synagogue in Warsaw,
Jewish Historical Institute, the former Orphanage of Dr. Janusz Korczak, who refused to be saved, and accompanied Jewish children to meet his death in Treblinka,
dinner at a Jewish restaurant downtown,
Day 3 – Warsaw – Łódź /Litzmannstadt/ – Warsaw
After breakfast, a full day excursion to Łódź, the city of four nations: Polish, German, Jewish and Russian. This specialized tour will provide you with an insight into the life and history of this important community. Jewish people made up about one third of the city’s population and owned one third of all factories. One of the places of interest is the biggest Jewish Cemetery in Europe, still preserved in its pre-war state in Bracka street. Other places of interest are as follows: Radegast railway station, once the departure point to concentration camps in Chełmno and Auschwitz; the areas of the former Litzmannstadt Ghetto, one of the most remarkable ghettos in Poland, which became known around the world because of the actions of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, the head of Judenrat; the only remaining synagogue in Łódź, which survived WW2 only because it had been turned into a salt storehouse. Nowadays, it is open for Jewish religious services; the biggest and most famous street in Łódź, Piotrkowska, where even today places can be found that remember the times of Artur Rubinstein, Ludwik Zamenhof, Jerzy Kosiński or Roman Polański.
Return to Warsaw. Dinner in hotel restaurant.
Day 4 – Warsaw – Treblinka – Tykocin – Białystok
During this tour you will have an opportunity to visit Treblinka, the second biggest and cruelest Nazi extermination camp, where 700 000 people were mercilessly killed within one year. In contrast to Auschwitz, there is not much to see at the first sight – while Auschwitz is meticulously reconstructed and located in a cultural landscape with historic traditions, Treblinka sits in an “outback” site with no big cities nearby, only fields and woods. Auschwitz involved immense terrors, but also cynical camouflage games, while Treblinka was solely a desperate death factory. In Treblinka, there is space for imagination and reflection. It is necessary to outbalance Treblinka – so you will travel to the east to reach Tykocin, a pretty small town with distinctive character. Like Treblinka, it is not a tourist spot. Today, Tykocin resembles an ethnographic museum with charming wooden houses, a synagogue and a majestic baroque church. A Jewish community was founded here in the 16th century and the town quickly became an important centre of both Polish and Jewish cultures.
From Tykocin, the group travels to Białystok, check-in at the hotel. In the afternoon, a walk in the center of Białystkok following the footsteps of Jewish history and culture. Dinner at hotel restaurant that serves the specialties of regional cuisine.
Day 5 – Białystok – Lublin – Majdanek
After breakfast, a trip to Lublin, which, through the ages, was a major centre of Jewish culture and art. Visits to all the places connected with Jewish heritage in the city, the tour starts in Castle Square where, a long time ago, Szeroka street cut through the traditionally Jewish part of the city. During World War II, a prison was located there, whose inmates included Jews spotted in public places without armbands marked with David’s Star. Next, a visit to possibly the oldest Jewish Cemetery still existing in Poland, the Old Kirkut, with the tomb of the famous Jakob Horowitz. A visit to New Jewish Cemetery and the building of pre-war Academy of Lublin Sages /Yeshiva Chachmel Lublin/ as well as the only synagogue that survived World War II, the Synagogue of the Chevra Nossim Funeral Society.
In the afternoon, the group visits the extermination camp on the outskirts of the city, in Majdanek. This was the second biggest Nazi camp in Europe after Auschwitz, where people of about 50 nationalities were imprisoned.
After the visit in Majdanek, dinner and a concert of Klezmer music in a local restaurant in Lublin.
Day 6 – Lublin – Zamość – Bełżec – Sieniawa – Leżajsk – Łańcut – Rzeszów
On the way:
a short walk through the Old Town of Zamość, a beautiful Renaissance town,
visit to the memorial site at the former Nazi death camp in Bełżec, where about half a million people were murdered and only 1 person survived, visit to the museum devoted to the history of the camp, visit to Jewish cemetery in Sieniawa,
visit to the Jewish Cemetery and the ohel of famous tzaddik Elimelech in Leżajsk,
Łańcut - a visit to the famous Lańcut Palace and probably the most beautiful synagogue in Poland
/alternatively, visit to the synagogue in Rzeszów/
Dinner at the hotel in Rzeszów.
Day 7 – Rzeszów – Lesko – Bobowa – Tarnów – Dabrowa Tarnowska – Cracow
The program includes the following:
Lesko – one of the biggest Jewish cemeteries in Poland
Bobowa – centre of Chassidism originating from “Bobower Rebbe”, with its famous synagogue,
Tarnów – a beautiful historical town with the 4th biggest Jewish settlement in Galicia /after Cracow, Lwów and Stanisławów/,
/optionally, Dabrowa Tarnowska - a typical shtetl with preserved synagogue/
Dinner at the hotel in Cracow.
Day 8 – Cracow
The program includes: after breakfast – sightseeing tour of Cracow, the Royal Route: the Market Square, Floriańska Gate, the Barbican, Wawel Castle: the Chambers and the Cathedral
in the afternoon – a visit to the quarter of Kazimierz: Szeroka Street, Remuh synagogue and cemetery, the Old Synagogue, Schindler’s factory, „Pod Orłem” pharmacy,
Dinner and Klezmer music concert at ARIEL or GALERIA GALICJA restaurant in Cracow’s district of Kazimierz.
Day 9 – Cracow
The program includes the following:
in the morning – visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau
in the afternoon – free time
Farewell dinner in a restaurant in Cracow’s Old Town.
Day 10 – after breakfast, transfer to the airport in Cracow.
This version of the program can be adapted to clients’ needs and wishes.
Services can be provided and the offer can be calculated for any number of participants.
As the above offer has the character of a nostalgic journey to the past, we have yet another suggestion of how to end your stay in Cracow, i.e. “Crazy Trip To The Times of Communist Poland”. The trip lasts approximately 4 hours. Tourists are transported from Cracow to Nowa Huta in TRABANT cars and can enjoy the opportunity to see numerous – now almost forgotten – interiors and objects which constituted the reality of communist Poland, including a typical restaurant and a typical 70’ menu, the interior of Nowa Huta plant’s worker’s flat, also from the 70’, etc.
The trip does not have much in common with Jewish history or culture, but it is a picture of Poles’ life under communist rule, which is worth reflecting upon from time perspective.
BOOK TOUR
Arrival in Warsaw, transfer from the airport to the hotel, check-in, welcome dinner in hotel’s restaurant or, alternatively, in one of fine restaurants in Warsaw’s Old Town
Day 2 – Warsaw
A full day city tour of Warsaw, following the footsteps of Jewish history and culture:
The Monument of Warsaw Ghetto Heroes that expresses the tragedy of the Ghetto (where German chancellor Willy Brandt unexpectedly knelt down in 1970)
Umschlagplatz Wall, from where, in 1942, 300 000 people were deported in cattle trucks for Treblinka concentration camp where they were gassed upon arrival,
Zamenhof Street, the remains of Nalewki Street, which once teemed with business life,
Miła Street, including the bunker where the commander of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Mordechai Anielewicz, committed suicide,
Jewish Cemetery, where Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto language, is buried,
Nożyk Synagogue, the only remaining synagogue in Warsaw,
Jewish Historical Institute, the former Orphanage of Dr. Janusz Korczak, who refused to be saved, and accompanied Jewish children to meet his death in Treblinka,
dinner at a Jewish restaurant downtown,
Day 3 – Warsaw – Łódź /Litzmannstadt/ – Warsaw
After breakfast, a full day excursion to Łódź, the city of four nations: Polish, German, Jewish and Russian. This specialized tour will provide you with an insight into the life and history of this important community. Jewish people made up about one third of the city’s population and owned one third of all factories. One of the places of interest is the biggest Jewish Cemetery in Europe, still preserved in its pre-war state in Bracka street. Other places of interest are as follows: Radegast railway station, once the departure point to concentration camps in Chełmno and Auschwitz; the areas of the former Litzmannstadt Ghetto, one of the most remarkable ghettos in Poland, which became known around the world because of the actions of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, the head of Judenrat; the only remaining synagogue in Łódź, which survived WW2 only because it had been turned into a salt storehouse. Nowadays, it is open for Jewish religious services; the biggest and most famous street in Łódź, Piotrkowska, where even today places can be found that remember the times of Artur Rubinstein, Ludwik Zamenhof, Jerzy Kosiński or Roman Polański.
Return to Warsaw. Dinner in hotel restaurant.
Day 4 – Warsaw – Treblinka – Tykocin – Białystok
During this tour you will have an opportunity to visit Treblinka, the second biggest and cruelest Nazi extermination camp, where 700 000 people were mercilessly killed within one year. In contrast to Auschwitz, there is not much to see at the first sight – while Auschwitz is meticulously reconstructed and located in a cultural landscape with historic traditions, Treblinka sits in an “outback” site with no big cities nearby, only fields and woods. Auschwitz involved immense terrors, but also cynical camouflage games, while Treblinka was solely a desperate death factory. In Treblinka, there is space for imagination and reflection. It is necessary to outbalance Treblinka – so you will travel to the east to reach Tykocin, a pretty small town with distinctive character. Like Treblinka, it is not a tourist spot. Today, Tykocin resembles an ethnographic museum with charming wooden houses, a synagogue and a majestic baroque church. A Jewish community was founded here in the 16th century and the town quickly became an important centre of both Polish and Jewish cultures.
From Tykocin, the group travels to Białystok, check-in at the hotel. In the afternoon, a walk in the center of Białystkok following the footsteps of Jewish history and culture. Dinner at hotel restaurant that serves the specialties of regional cuisine.
Day 5 – Białystok – Lublin – Majdanek
After breakfast, a trip to Lublin, which, through the ages, was a major centre of Jewish culture and art. Visits to all the places connected with Jewish heritage in the city, the tour starts in Castle Square where, a long time ago, Szeroka street cut through the traditionally Jewish part of the city. During World War II, a prison was located there, whose inmates included Jews spotted in public places without armbands marked with David’s Star. Next, a visit to possibly the oldest Jewish Cemetery still existing in Poland, the Old Kirkut, with the tomb of the famous Jakob Horowitz. A visit to New Jewish Cemetery and the building of pre-war Academy of Lublin Sages /Yeshiva Chachmel Lublin/ as well as the only synagogue that survived World War II, the Synagogue of the Chevra Nossim Funeral Society.
In the afternoon, the group visits the extermination camp on the outskirts of the city, in Majdanek. This was the second biggest Nazi camp in Europe after Auschwitz, where people of about 50 nationalities were imprisoned.
After the visit in Majdanek, dinner and a concert of Klezmer music in a local restaurant in Lublin.
Day 6 – Lublin – Zamość – Bełżec – Sieniawa – Leżajsk – Łańcut – Rzeszów
On the way:
a short walk through the Old Town of Zamość, a beautiful Renaissance town,
visit to the memorial site at the former Nazi death camp in Bełżec, where about half a million people were murdered and only 1 person survived, visit to the museum devoted to the history of the camp, visit to Jewish cemetery in Sieniawa,
visit to the Jewish Cemetery and the ohel of famous tzaddik Elimelech in Leżajsk,
Łańcut - a visit to the famous Lańcut Palace and probably the most beautiful synagogue in Poland
/alternatively, visit to the synagogue in Rzeszów/
Dinner at the hotel in Rzeszów.
Day 7 – Rzeszów – Lesko – Bobowa – Tarnów – Dabrowa Tarnowska – Cracow
The program includes the following:
Lesko – one of the biggest Jewish cemeteries in Poland
Bobowa – centre of Chassidism originating from “Bobower Rebbe”, with its famous synagogue,
Tarnów – a beautiful historical town with the 4th biggest Jewish settlement in Galicia /after Cracow, Lwów and Stanisławów/,
/optionally, Dabrowa Tarnowska - a typical shtetl with preserved synagogue/
Dinner at the hotel in Cracow.
Day 8 – Cracow
The program includes: after breakfast – sightseeing tour of Cracow, the Royal Route: the Market Square, Floriańska Gate, the Barbican, Wawel Castle: the Chambers and the Cathedral
in the afternoon – a visit to the quarter of Kazimierz: Szeroka Street, Remuh synagogue and cemetery, the Old Synagogue, Schindler’s factory, „Pod Orłem” pharmacy,
Dinner and Klezmer music concert at ARIEL or GALERIA GALICJA restaurant in Cracow’s district of Kazimierz.
Day 9 – Cracow
The program includes the following:
in the morning – visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau
in the afternoon – free time
Farewell dinner in a restaurant in Cracow’s Old Town.
Day 10 – after breakfast, transfer to the airport in Cracow.
This version of the program can be adapted to clients’ needs and wishes.
Services can be provided and the offer can be calculated for any number of participants.
As the above offer has the character of a nostalgic journey to the past, we have yet another suggestion of how to end your stay in Cracow, i.e. “Crazy Trip To The Times of Communist Poland”. The trip lasts approximately 4 hours. Tourists are transported from Cracow to Nowa Huta in TRABANT cars and can enjoy the opportunity to see numerous – now almost forgotten – interiors and objects which constituted the reality of communist Poland, including a typical restaurant and a typical 70’ menu, the interior of Nowa Huta plant’s worker’s flat, also from the 70’, etc.
The trip does not have much in common with Jewish history or culture, but it is a picture of Poles’ life under communist rule, which is worth reflecting upon from time perspective.
BOOK TOUR
