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Airport taxes, fees & September 11th Security Fee, & tips to guides, driver, and tour escort/manager (see Terms & Conditions).
Land only price does not include arrival/departure transfers.
Sunday. Depart USA to Warsaw. Your flight includes meals, drinks, and
in-flight entertainment for the journey
Monday. Arrive and transfer to your hotel. ‘The World that Was…’ A special introductory program with Scholar in Residence, Paul Liptz, at the Nozyk Synagogue. Dinner in a private room at the hotel with members of the Warsaw Progressive community. (D): WARSAW
Tuesday. Visit the Okapova Cemetery, a testament to the thriving Jewish community of Warsaw in the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries, where great rabbis, thinkers, scientists and Jews from all walks of life are buried, with a special interactive drama program. Guided visit through the Warsaw Ghetto, including the Remnants of the Ghetto Wall, The Warsaw Ghetto Memorial, Mila 18, headquarters of the Warsaw Ghetto and concluding program at the Umschlagplatz, site of the deportation of the Warsaw Jewish community to Treblinka. Visit the Janush Korchak orphanage. Dinner on your own and free evening in Warsaw with members of the Warsaw Progressive community. (B): WARSAW
Wednesday. Depart for the town of Osvizem.
Guided walk through the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp/death camp complex, with a joint memorial ceremony in Birkenau, conducted by Israelis and Americans. “Individual and Collective Memory: Where do I Fit In,” dialogue and processing session with Scholar in Residence, Paul Liptz at the Osvizem Jewish Center, located on the site of one of the many pre-Holocaust synagogues in the town of Osvizem. Drive to Krakow and check in to your hotel. Dinner on your own, followed by a free evening in Krakow’s Old Town. (B):
KRAKOW
Thursday. ‘Krakow: The Formative Ground for Modern Jewish Life: Rabbi Moses Isserles, ’ with Scholar in Residence, Paul Liptz. Depart hotel.
Interactive ‘Site & Text’ program in the Kazimierz Jewish Quarter, once one of the most significant Jewish communities in Europe, 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. Box lunch. Visit the “Pharmacy” gateway to the Ghetto and the Oskar Schindler factory. Concluding program at the Plashow concentration camp. Dinner on your own in Krakow with members of the Krakow Jewish community. (B,L): KRAKOW
Friday. Transfer to the Warsaw Airport for your flight to Berlin. Panoramic general city tour of Berlin. Tour the permanent exhibition of the “New Synagogue Berlin–Centrum Judaicum.” Visit the Jewish Museum and the recently opened Leo Beack Institute Archives. Stop at the building that housed the Hochschule fur die Weissenschaft des Judentums, the liberal rabbinical seminary established in Berlin in 1872 and closed by the Nazis in 1942, while under the leadership of Leo Baeck. Meet with representatives of the Abraham Geiger College, the first new rabbinical seminary to open in Central Europe since the end of World War II. Check into the hotel. Kabbalat Shabbat services with the Berlin Progressive community. Shabbat dinner. (B,D): BERLIN
Saturday. Today, breakfast at the hotel followed by a program with the Union of Progressive Judaism. Afternoon at leisure to explore Berlin (B): BERLIN
Sunday. Visit Jewish cemeteries in Weissensee and the Grosse Hamburger Strasse. Visit the dome of the new Reichstag building.Tour the Topography of Terror Exhibition and Documentation Centre. Visit the Pergamon Museum or the Nationalgalerie. Festive farewell dinner with members of the Berlin Progressive community (B,D): BERLIN
Monday. Transfer to airport for your departure flight (B)
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