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- 11 days of touring in a luxury, air-conditioned bus and
1-day walking tour with licensed, English-speaking local tour guides
- Da'at tour educator accompanying the group from arrival to
departure
- 1st class train ticket from Warsaw to Krakow, with separate
luggage transfer
- All site entrance fees and program fees as per
itinerary
- Meals: daily brekfast, 2 lunch & 7 dinners
- Porterage at the hotels
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| Day One: Sunday DEPARTURE Overnight: Flight Day Two: Monday ARRIVAL IN WARSAW - Arrive at Warsaw International Airport.
- Transfer to the hotel on your own. (Transfers can be arranged at
additional cost.)
- 2:00 p.m. Meet your tour educator and other group members in the hotel
lobby.
- Depart for an orientation tour of the city.
- Visit the newly opened Museum of the History of Polish
Jews.
- Return to the hotel.
- Evening walk through Warsaw's Old Town.
- LaDa'at Focus 1,000 Years of Jewish History:
Welcome dinner and orientation dialogue with your tour
educator.
Overnight: Warsaw Day Three: Tuesday THE WORLD THAT WAS - Breakfast at the hotel.
- LaDa'at Focus The World That Was: Guided visit
through the Okapova Cemetery, one of the largest Jewish
cemeteries in the world and a testimony to hundreds of years of Jewish life in
Poland.
- Guided visit through the Warsaw Ghetto, including the
Remnants of the Ghetto Wall, the Warsaw Ghetto
Memorial, Mila 18, and
Umschlagplatz, site of the deportation of the Warsaw Jewish
community to Treblinka.
- Lunch on own, en route.
- Visit the Nozyk Synagogue, the last remaining
pre-Holocaust synagogue in Warsaw.
- Visit the Jewish Genealogy Center, including meeting with
the Director for a family roots' discovery.
- Return to the hotel.
- Dinner at Beit Warszawa, Warsaw's liberal congregation,
with community members.
Overnight: Warsaw Day Four: Wednesday RE-CREATING MEMORY - Breakfast at the hotel.
- Check out of the hotel and load luggage onto the luggage truck (luggage
will be transferred to Krakow separately).
- Transfer to the Warsaw Train Station and travel
to Krakow (train journey is approximately 3 hours).
- Upon arrival in Krakow disembark and stop for lunch on own.
- Interactive program in the Kazimierz Jewish Quarter,
including:
- The Altshul, the oldest synagogue in Poland.
- The Rema Synagogue, the synagogue of Rabbi Moses
Isserles (the “Rema”), the great codifier of Jewish law.
- The Rema Cemetery, where many great rabbinical leaders
of Polish Jewry are buried.
- The Temple, Krakow's Reform congregation.
- The Galicia Jewish Museum, established to commemorate
the victims of the Holocaust and celebrate the Jewish culture of Polish
Galicia, presenting Jewish history from a new perspective.
- Take a guided visit to Podgorze, where the Jewish Ghetto
was located during the Holocaust, including:
- The “Pharmacy” gateway to the Ghetto, and the Jewish
Ghetto.
- Visit the Oskar Schindler Factory Museum.
- Check into the hotel.
- In the evening take a guided walk to Krakow's Market Square with the
opportunity for dinner on own.
Overnight: Krakow Day Five: Thursday THE DESTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN JEWRY - Breakfast at the hotel.
- LaDa'at Focus Learning about the Holocaust in
Poland From a Historical Perspective: Dialogue with a scholar from the
Jageillonian University.
- In This Place: Guided tour through the Auschwitz-Birkenau
Complex, using personal stories and texts as a guide.
- Visit the Oswiecim Jewish Center on the site of one of
Oswiecim's many pre-Holocaust synagogues, including boxed
lunch. Before Auschwitz became infamous as the ultimate symbol of the
Holocaust, it was just an ordinary Polish town, known as Oswiecim, the
majority of whose citizens were Jewish.
- LaDa'at Focus Group reflection with your tour
educator.
- Return to Krakow with free time to explore Krakow's Old Town.
- Dinner at the Jewish Community Center
with the JCC Director and local members of the community.
Overnight: Krakow Day Six: Friday FROM KRAKOW TO BUDAPEST - Breakfast at the hotel.
- Check out of the hotel, depart Krakow and cross the border into
Slovakia.
- Drive through the Tatra Mountains and stop for lunch on
own in the town of Bansca Bystrika, with its beautiful
Gothic-style buildings and quaint streets.
- Drive through Slovakia to Hungary and continue to
Budapest.
- LaDa'at Focus An Introduction to Hungary with
your tour educator.
- Arrive in Budapest and meet your local guide at Heroes'
Square, one of Budapest's landmarks, for an introduction to Hungary.
- Transfer to your hotel in downtown Budapest for check-in.
- Time to prepare for Shabbat.
- Optional Kabbalat Shabbat services at a local synagogue.
- Shabbat dinner at a restaurant.
- Evening walking tour with your tour educator to discover the sights,
smells and sounds of Budapest.
Overnight: Budapest Day Seven: Saturday SHABBAT IN BUDAPEST - Breakfast at the hotel.
- LaDa'at Focus An Inside Look into Hungary -
Politics, Economics & Society: Dialogue with a leading scholar.
- Drive through the city and across the river to ascend Castle
Hill for a chance to view Budapest from atop the Fisherman's
Bastion.
- Drive to Szentendre, a charming little town, whose name
means "Saint Andrew," known for its well-preserved houses and churches, many
built in a Balkan-style, as the area was originally settled by Serb refugees.
Today the town's best-known inhabitants are artists, and small galleries can
be found on every street corner.
- Lunch on own in Szentendre.
- Return to the hotel.
- Free time to explore on your own, with the opportunity to:
- Wander along Vaci Utca (Vaci Street), with its many
shops and cafes.
- Visit Budapest's City Park (Varosliget), which features
Vajdahunyad Castle, the City Park Lake,
which is great for rowing in summer and ice skating in winter, the
Budapest Circus and the Municipal Zoo,
which is over 100 years old.
- Visit the Széchenyi Bathhouse, the largest medicinal
bath in Europe, which houses a number of indoor and outdoor pools.
- Dinner on own and evening at leisure.
Overnight: Budapest Day Eight: Sunday JEWISH LIFE IN BUDAPEST - Breakfast at the hotel.
- LaDa'at Focus Hungarian Jewry - Past, Present,
Future with your tour educator.
- Explore the story of Jewish Budapest over the past 150
years, including visits to:
- The Dohany Street Synagogue, the largest in Europe.
- The Jewish Museum, built on the site of the house where
Theodor Herzl was born.
- The Community Holocaust Memorial.
- Stop at the Shoes on the Danube Promenade, a memorial created by Gyula
Pauer and Can Togay on the Pest side of the Danube, honoring the Jews shot by
fascist Arrow Cross militants during World War II. The memorial represents the
shoes left on the river bank as the victims fell into the water.
- Lunch on own at the Budapest Market, with free time to
purchase local spices and delicacies.
- Special program with the local Jewish community at the Jewish Community
Center OR Israeli Cultural Institute.
- Enjoy a cruise on the Danube River.
- Return to the hotel.
- Dinner on own and evening at leisure.
Overnight: Budapest Day Nine: Monday BETWEEN BUDAPEST AND PRAGUE - Breakfast at the hotel.
- Check out of the hotel.
- Depart Budapest and drive west to the Czech Republic.
- Stop in Brno in the Czech Republic and visit the
Brno Synagogue where you'll meet with one of the last-remaining Jews
in this once-thriving Jewish community.
- Lunch on own, en route.
- Continue the drive to Prague and upon arrival in the
city, check into the hotel.
- Evening stroll to the Old Town Square.
- LaDa'at Focus An Inside Look into the Czech
Republic - Politics, Economics & Society: Dialogue with a local
journalist, over dinner in Prague.
Overnight: Prague Day Ten: Tuesday THE GLORY OF PRAGUE | walking tour - Breakfast at the hotel.
- Ascend to the Prague Castle for a guided tour of the
Castle and an overview of the City of 100 Spires and a walk
along the Golden Lane.
- Walk through the Lesser Town and over the Charles
Bridge.
- Lunch on own, en route.
- LaDa'at Focus The Jewish Community of Prague - A
Millennium of Complex Coexistence with your tour educator.
- Guided visit through Jewish Prague, including the Old
Ghetto and the Precious Legacy Exhibit at the Jewish Museum, which
encompasses the Altneu Shul, the Maisel
Synagogue, the Pincus Synagogue, the Old
Cemetery and the Spanish Synagogue.
- Return to the hotel.
- Dinner on own.
- Attend a performance of Prague's famous “Black Light
Theatre”, bringing mime, music and movement to life.
Overnight: Prague Day Eleven: Wednesday MEMORY & CONTINUITY - Breakfast at the hotel.
- Depart for Terezin accompanied by a Holocaust survivor.
- Visit Terezin, the town that was turned into a ghetto and concentration
camp, including the Historical Museum and the Art
Exhibits, the so-called Hidden Synagogue and
the Crematorium.
- Packed lunch en route.
- Continue the drive to Berlin.
- LaDa'at Focus The Enigma that is Berlin:
Introduction to Berlin with your tour educator.
- Introductory tour to Berlin including visits to:
- The Brandenburg Gate, originally commissioned by
Friedrich Wilhelm II to represent peace, was ironically incorporated into
the Berlin Wall during the years of the Communist regime. Perhaps
Berlin's best-known landmark, it now stands as a symbol of the city's
reunification.
- The Holocaust Memorial, the Monument to the Murdered
Jews of Europe, designed by architect Peter Eisenman. This undulating field
of reflection with thousands of concrete dark gray slabs forms a gentle
wave, ankle-high in some places, designed to give visitors a sense of
groundlessness and of a loss of orientation; the memorial also includes a
subterranean information center at the edge of the site which houses a
permanent exhibition dedicated to the six million Jewish victims of the
Holocaust.
- Check into the hotel.
- Dinner on your own and evening at leisure.
Overnight: Berlin Day Twelve: Thursday BERLIN - PAST AND PRESENT - Breakfast at the hotel.
- LaDa'at Focus An Introduction to Berlin -
Sociology, Economy, Politics & Culture: Dialogue with a leading
journalist.
- Explore Berlin's rich history, including:
- Alexander Platz, the city center of former Socialist
East Berlin.
- Unter Den Linden, the grand central boulevard in the
Mitte district.
- The Altes Museum (Old Museum) completed on the orders
of Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1830. The museum is one of the renowned
museums on Museum Island and since restoration work in 1966, it houses the
antique collection of the Berlin State Museums.
- View the famous Humboldt University of Berlin.
- The Book Burning Memorial at Bebel Square.
- Lunch on your own, en route.
- Visit Checkpoint Charlie which was a crossing point
between East and West Berlin during the Cold War.
- Visit Topography of Terror, where the central
institutions of Nazi persecution and terror were located.
- Return to the hotel.
- Dinner on your own and evening at leisure.
Overnight: Berlin Day Thirteen: Friday JEWISH LIFE IN BERLIN - Breakfast at the hotel.
- LaDa'at Focus The Distinguished Jews of Berlin
with your tour educator.
- Walk along Grosse Hamburger Strasse, once the center of
Berlin Jewry.
- Visit the Museum of Otto Weidt's Workshop for the Blind,
a haven for Jews during the Holocaust years in Berlin.
- Tour to Jewish sites in East Berlin including:
- The Hackescher Market
- The Jewish Boys' School
- The Jewish Cemetery, including Moses Mendelsson's grave
- The site of the Women's Protest on Rosenenstreasse
- Lunch on your own, en route.
- Visit the New Synagogue and the Centrum
Judaicum, one of the most important locations for contemporary Jewish
life in Berlin.
- Guided visit to the Jewish Museum of Berlin, designed by
architect Daniel Libeskind. One of the most conspicuous architectural
landmarks in the city, it embodies remembrance, melancholy, and departure.
- Return to the hotel.
- Optional Kabbalat Shabbat services at a local synagogue.
- Shabbat dinner at a restaurant.
Overnight: Berlin Day Fourteen: Saturday FREE DAY IN BERLIN - Breakfast at the hotel.
- Day at leisure to explore Berlin on own, with the opportunity to:
- Visit Berlin's excellent museums, such as the Gemaeldegalerie or the
Neue Nationalgalerie, or any of the museums on Museum Island. Museum Island
features the Altes Museum, the Neues Museum, the Alte Nationalgalerie, the
Bode Museum and the Pergamon Museum.
- Explore the city's many art galleries.
- Shop on the Kurfürstendamm (known locally as the
Ku'damm).
- Visit the East Side Gallery, a part of the former
Berlin Wall now serving as a memorial of 150 wall paintings from a slew of
international artists.
- Visit the DDR Museum, an interactive museum that offers
a snapshot of life in East Berlin in the days of the Soviet occupation.
- Festive farewell dinner and group reflection at a
restaurant.
Overnight: Berlin Day Fifteen: Sunday RETURN HOME - Breakfast at the hotel.
- Check out of the hotel.
- Transfer on your own to the Berlin International Airport. (Transfers can
be arranged at additional cost.)
- Departure flight to the U.S.A., arriving the same
day.
| | Need to Know | - Tour rates
are per person based on double occupancy and a minimum of
15 full paying participants.
- Tour
prices are per person in U.S. dollars. All hotel
accommodations, motor coach transportation, special
dinners, sightseeing, admissions, luggage handling and
the services of local guides, drivers and the tour educator
are included.
- Hotels are
subject to confirmation. If the hotels listed cannot be
confirmed, we will use other hotels on the same level.
- Hotel
Accommodations: The tour price includes all hotel
accommodations, in hotel rooms with private baths. Our
standard is to provide the best available hotels while
considering value. Although the level of the accommodations
may differ slightly from hotel to hotel, we are committed to
your comfort. Two-bed rooms are reserved in most
hotels. Triples are two-bed rooms with a rollaway cot
where available and are not recommended when considering the
comfort of those in the room. King-size beds are not
available in most hotels; what is considered king-size
usually consists of two single beds pushed together and
made up separately, but with one headboard. Some two-bed
rooms may have two twin (not full- or queen-size)
beds.
- Meals are
included as specified in the itinerary.
- Tour
Educator: All trips are conducted by our tour educators or
local guides who remain with the group throughout the
tour.
- Gratuities
included for restaurant and hotel staff only (for guides
and drivers, see below).
- Baggage: All
tour packages / group tours allow one piece of luggage
per person and one carry-on bag. Excess luggage will be
subject to a charge of up to $100 per piece. The
Travel Agent and/or Tour Operator, shall not be held
responsible for any damage to or loss of luggage/personal
items. All damage/loss must be reported at time of the
incident and documented in writing by local authorities
for submission to the insurance company. With regard to
airline baggage allowance, different carriers have
different regulations for business and coach. Please check
with your individual carrier with regard to permitted
number of pieces, weights and dimensions. The tour operator is
not responsible for fees levied by any air carrier for
the transport of personal belongings of any
kind.
Not Included
- Airfare
to the tour departure point and from the tour ending
point is not included. Airfare may be purchased from us
for travel originating in the United
States.
- Supplemental cost for Bar/Bat Mitzvah ceremony (to be advised
upon request).
- Personal Expenses: All personal expenses such as laundry, valet
service, cables, telephone calls, Wi-Fi usage and postage
are not included.
- Guide
and Driver Gratuities (recommended guidelines vary based
on number of
participants):
- For
a group of 15-19
passengers:
$10 per participant per day
for the Da'at tour educator, $5 per
participant per day for the local guide &
$3 per participant per day for the
driver - For a group of 20 passengers and
more:
$8 per participant per day for the Da'at tour
educator, $5 per participant per day for
the local guide & $3 per
participant per day for the driver
Additional Information
- Airline
Security Measures: In the U.S., you must provide
identification in the form of a passport at the time of
airport check-in for travel to international destinations.
Your passport name must match the name on your tour
reservation and airline ticket or you may be denied
boarding.
- If you
are traveling from an airport outside the jurisdiction
of the U.S., you will need to determine what travel
documentation and identification is required for that
particular airport.
- Due to
heightened security regulations, certain items such as
a metal nail file, pocketknife, cigarette lighter or
tweezers, and some liquid, gel, or aerosol items may not
be permitted in your carry-on luggage. Please call your
airline prior to departure to obtain current information on
non-permissible carry-on items and recommended airport
check-in times. You may also wish to visit the
Transportation Security Administration website at www.tsa.gov
to obtain more information on acceptable identity
documentation and prohibited luggage
items.
- Holidays and Museum Closures: Museum visits and personal shopping
time may be disrupted due to unforeseen circumstances or
the many religious, state and local holidays locally
observed in the destinations being
visited.
- Photography During Tours: We will occasionally use photographs taken
by fellow guests or your trip director for promotional
purposes. If you prefer that your photo not be used in
any marketing activities, please notify us at the
start of your tour.
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