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- 7 days of touring in a luxury, air-conditioned bus with licensed, English
speaking local tour guide
- Da'at tour educator accompanying the group from arrival to departure
- All site entrance fees and program fees as per itinerary
- Meals: daily breakfast, 2 lunches & 5 dinners
- Portage 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, including a visit to 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 and meet 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 JEWISH LIFE IN THE SHTETL - Breakfast at the hotel.
- Check out of the hotel.
- LaDa'at Focus How We Remember with your tour
educator.
- Depart Warsaw for Treblinka.
- Visit the Treblinka Extermination Camp.
- Lunch on your own, en route.
- Continue to the village of Tykocin.
- Guided visit to Tykocin and the Luchopowa Forest.
- Drive to Lublin and check into the hotel upon
arrival.
- Dinner at the hotel.
Overnight: Lublin Day Five: Thursday LIFE IN LUBLIN TO DEATH IN
MAJDANEK - Breakfast at the hotel and check out.
- LaDa'at Focus The Role of Jewish Learning in
Jewish History with your tour educator.
- Walk through the center of Lublin, once a great center of
Jewish life, along the well-known Sjeroka Street, concluding at the local
castle that was used as a prison during the Second World War.
- Visit Yeshivat Chachamei Lublin, once the world's largest
Yeshiva, now used as a medical school.
- Guided visit through the Majdanek Concentration &
Extermination Camp, including a memorial service.
- Lunch box en route.
- Drive to Krakow and check into the hotel.
- Dinner on your own and evening at leisure.
Overnight: Krakow Day Six: Friday RE-CREATING MEMORY - 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.
- 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.
- Lunch on your own, en route.
- Guided visit to Podgorze, where the Jewish Ghetto was
located during the Holocaust, including:
- The “Pharmacy” gateway to the Ghetto, and the Jewish
Ghetto.
- The Oskar Schindler Factory Museum.
- Return to the hotel with free time to prepare for Shabbat.
- Optional Shabbat services at a local synagogue.
- Shabbat dinner at the Jewish Community
Center with the JCC Director and local members of the
community.
Overnight: Krakow Day Seven: Saturday SHABBAT IN KRAKOW - Breakfast at the hotel.
- Guided walk to Krakow's Market Square and Old
Town.
- Guided visit to the Wawel Royal Castle,
one of Krakow's most famous landmarks.
- Lunch on your own, en route.
- Visit the Wieliczka Salt Mines. Explore magnificent
chambers chiseled out in rock salt, underground saline lakes and unique
statues sculpted in salt.
- Free time to explore Krakow's Old Town on your own.
- Dinner on your own and evening at leisure.
Overnight: Krakow Day Eight: Sunday THE DESTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN
JEWRY - Breakfast at the hotel.
- 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 for last-minute packing, shopping, or to
explore on your own.
- Farewell dinner and group reflection at a
restaurant.
Overnight: Krakow Day Nine: Monday RETURN HOME - Breakfast at the hotel.
- Check out of the hotel.
- Transfer on your own to the Krakow 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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