Journey to Poland: May 24 - 31, 2016

Trip Outline

 

This once in a lifetime trip to Poland where we will spend seven days travelling through historical places where the Holocaust occurred.

 

Itinerary

 

 

Day 1 - Wednesday, May 25

• Arrival in Warsaw

• Drive to Warsaw Jewish Cemetery

• New Jewish Museum in Warsaw

• Nozik shul.S

• Dinner

• Overnight Warsaw Radisson Blu Sobieski

 

Day 2 - Thursday, May 26

• Warsaw Ghetto

• Drive to Lodz

• Lodz Ghetto

• Lodz Jewish Cemetery

• Radegast Train Station

• Piotrokow

• Dinner in Kielce

• Overnight Kielce – Hotel Binkowski

 

Day 3 - Friday, May 27

• Kielce

• Drive to Krakow

• Rama cemetery and part of walking tour

• Including Schindler’s Factory and Pankiewicz’s Pharmacy

• Rest before Shabbat

• Kabbalat Shabat

• Shabbat Dinner

• Overnight Krakow – Ester Hotel and Rubinstein Hotel

 

Day 4 - Shabbat, May 28

• Tephila

• Kiddush

• Lunch and Fabrengin

• Walking tour of Jewish Krakow

• Testimony from a Righteous amongst the Nations

• Seudah Shlishit

• Havdallah

• Overnight Krakow – Ester Hotel and Rubinstein Hotel

 

Day 5 - Sunday, May 29

• Auschwitz I

• Auschwitz II Birkenau

• Dinner

• Overnight Krakow – Ester Hotel and Rubinstein Hotel

 

Day 6 - Monday, May 30

• Zbylitowska Gora

• Lezajsk

• Lancut

• Belzec

• Izbice

• Overnight Lublin – Grand Hotel

 

Day 7 - Tuesday, May 31

• Old City of Lublin

• Jewish Cemetery of Lublin including the grave of the Choze of Lublin

• Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin

• Majdanek

• Drive to Warsaw

• Program Conclusion: Umschlagplatz Warsaw

• Drive to Warsaw Airport