Day One: Sunday
DEPARTURE

• Depart the U.S.A.

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.