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Program Itinerary
DAY 1
DEPARTURE
Tue. Apr 2, 2024
- Depart the USA.
Overnight: Flight
DAY 2
THE START OF A SPECIAL JOURNEY
Wed. Apr 3, 2024
- Arrive at Warsaw International Airport and transfer to your hotel.
- Check into the hotel.
- Enjoy a welcome dinner and orientation with your tour educator.
Overnight: Warsaw
Meals: Dinner
DAY 3
THE WORLD THAT WAS & THE WORLD THAT IS
Thu. Apr 4, 2024
- Visit the Nozyk Synagogue, the last remaining pre-WWII synagogue in Warsaw.
- Visit the Gensha Cemetery, one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in the world. Revive the names on the unique tombstones of famous Jewish leaders, artists, rabbis, and intellectuals.
- Take a guided visit to the remains of the Warsaw Ghetto. At Mila 18, we will commemorate the doomed uprising and at Umschlagplatz, the holding area before transportation to the Treblinka death camp.
- Explore the Ringelblum Archives, an eye-witness record of life and death in the Warsaw Ghetto.
- Many of us know that our families and descendants once lived in Poland but understand little else about their lives and experiences. Meet the people who can help change that. The Jewish Genealogy & Family Center assists people from around the world in discovering their roots in Poland. We’ll hear about how they search for clues, information, and insights that help rebuild family stories.
- See the impact of a program supported by our federation and implemented by the Jewish Agency for Israel, our primary partner.
Overnight: Warsaw
Meals: Breakfast
DAY 4
FROM LIFE IN WOLOMIN TO DEATH IN TREBLINKA
Fri. Apr 5, 2024
- We will walk the streets of Wolomin and connect with the town's Jewish history for what once was a flourishing Jewish community until World War II.
- Packed lunch, en route.
- For many years, the world knew little about Treblinka. This extermination camp was leveled completely by the Nazis and very few inmates survived to give witness. However, it is now understood that this was one of largest killing centers of the Holocaust. We will walk on the rebuilt train tracks that transported prisoners to this remote forest camp and pause at monuments that commemorate the approximately 850,000 people, mainly Jews, murdered here. At the symbolic cemetery, stones mark the 17,000 cities or towns from which victims came from. Our focus will be on Treblinka as a place of Jewish heroism and not just of death. The educator Janusz Korczak was killed here because he refused to abandon the children from the orphanage he ran. We will also recall the prisoner revolt and escape attempt of May 2, 1943.
- Return to Warsaw.
- Enjoy a Shabbat service with the local community, followed by Shabbat dinner at JCC Warsaw with leadership and Hillel students.
Overnight: Warsaw
Meals: Breakfast, Packed Lunch & Dinner
DAY 5
FROM WARSAW TO KRAKOW
Sat. Apr 6, 2024
- Check out of the hotel.
- The Jewish Community in Poland – Past, Present, & Future: Talk with AJC Senior Policy and Program Officer Dr. Sebastian Rejak about how modern-day Poland deals with the Holocaust and whether there is a future for the small Jewish community in the country.
- Visit the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, located in the center of what once was the Warsaw Ghetto.
- Depart Warsaw on a train to Krakow.
- Arrive in Krakow and experience the authentic local cuisine and culture on a fun tasting tour.
- Check into the hotel.
Overnight: Krakow
Meals: Breakfast & Dinner
DAY 6
LAYERED MEMORIES AND THE PATH THAT BINDS THEM
Sun. Apr 7, 2024
- Explore the Kazimierz Jewish Quarter. Once the heart of Jewish life in Krakow for 500 years, the quarter is now one of the city’s most attractive and Bohemian areas. Our tour will include:
- The Altshul. Built in the 15th century, this is the oldest synagogue still standing in Poland.
- The Rema Synagogue, named after Rabbi Moses Isserles (the “Rema"), a great Talmudic scholar and codifier of Jewish law. It is one of the few synagogues in Krakow that is still active today.
- The Rema Cemetery, where many renowned rabbis, including the Rema himself, are buried.
- The Tempel Synagogue. No longer used as a synagogue, it instead hosts artistic events and is a key venue in the revival of Jewish culture in the city.
- Visit the Galicia Jewish Museum and meet with a Holocaust survivor.
- Cross the bridge from Kazimierz to the site of the Podgorze ghetto, from where many were deported to the death camps or were killed in 1943 when it was liquidated. See the following sites:
- The Krakow Umschlagplatz memorial, now called Ghetto Heroes Square, which was the center of the Podgorze Ghetto. Its “lonely chairs” are a monument to those who have vanished.
- The Under the Eagle Pharmacy, a pharmacy inside the ghetto run by Tadeusz Pankiewitz. We’ll hear how this Polish-Catholic pharmacist saved many Jews and was subsequently recognized by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous among the Nations.
- The Oscar Schindler Factory Museum tells the story of Krakow and its residents under Nazi occupation from 1939 to 1945.
- Return to the hotel.
Overnight: Krakow
Meals: Breakfast
DAY 7
THE DESTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN JEWRY
Mon. Apr 8, 2024
- Visit the Auschwitz–Birkenau complex, the largest of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps and in all its inhumanity. Over 1.1 million people lost their lives in the Auschwitz camps. Our experience will include:
- The first camp built at Auschwitz, a mass concentration camp. Here, we’ll visit the Auschwitz museum which contains powerful artifacts and haunting footage of the lives and deaths of prisoners.
- We will then make the short drive to the Auschwitz II death camp, also known as Birkenau. Largely untouched since the war, it provides intimate insights into the tragedy of the Holocaust. We’ll reflect here on the personal stories of some of the Jews held and killed here and read accounts from survivors.
- Packed lunch en route.
- Visit the Oswiecim Synagogue which stood as a silent witness to the Holocaust.
- Return to the hotel.
- At the Krakow Jewish Community Center, we’ll talk with JCC director Jonathan Ornstein, and members of the local community, over dinner.
Overnight: Krakow
Meals: Breakfast, Packed Lunch & Dinner
DAY 8
FROM KRAKOW TO VIENNA
Tue. Apr 9, 2024
- Check out of the hotel and drive to Brno, the second largest city of the Czech Republic.
- Learn about the long history of Jews in Brno and visit the Agudas Achim Synagogue. Meet with members of the local community.
- Continue your drive to Vienna.
- Arrive in Vienna and check into the hotel, with evening at leisure.
Overnight: Vienna
Meals: Breakfast
DAY 9
WONDERFUL VIENNA
Wed. Apr 10, 2024
- Take a look behind the scenes of the world's largest repertory operation and discover much that otherwise remains hidden from the evening opera-goer during a private guided tour of the Vienna State Opera.
- Take a panoramic orientation tour along the Ringstrasse, the main avenue circling the city center, for a view of the city's main landmarks, including: The Hofburg Palace, St. Stephen's Cathedral, St. Peter's Church.
- Tour Nachsmarket, the city’s biggest food market. Enjoy a light lunch on own at the market.
- See "The Kiss" and other famous paintings by Gustav Klimt at the Belvedere Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of Europe’s most beautiful Baroque buildings.
- Enjoy a farewell dinner.
Overnight: Vienna
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
DAY 10
OPTIONAL EXTENSION OR UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN
Thu. Apr 11, 2024
- OPTION 1: RETURN HOME
- Check out of the hotel and transfer to the airport.
- Return flight to the USA.
- OPTION 2: EXTENSION IN VIENNA
- Visit the Stadttemple Synagogue, the only synagogue in Vienna to survive Kristallnacht and World War Two. Hear about the synagogue’s role in Vienna’s Jewish life today.
- Continue to the Judenplatz, a center of Vienna’s Jewish life. Optional: Research your family roots.
- Travel to the heart of the Habsburg Empire with a visit to the Schönbrunn Palace and Gardens.
- Discover the secrets of strudel-making while watching master confectioners at work.
- Return to the hotel with evening at leisure.
- Next day morning check-out and transfer to the airport.
Overnight: Vienna
Meals: Breakfast
RATES & LODGING
participants
20+
Cost p/p in double room
$4,995
Cost p/p in single room
$5,665
Reduced cost of $4,295 for 30 or more participants.
Additional touring day and night in Vienna on April 11:
+ $500 per person sharing a double room (for a minimum 20 paying participants). Registration open
Warsaw: Crowne Plaza- The HUB
- Nights: 3
- Room Category: Standard
- Hotel Website
Krakow: Indigo Old Town
- Nights: 3
- Room Category: Standard
- Hotel Website
Vienna: Hilton Plaza
- Nights: 2
- Room Category: Standard
- Hotel Website
What to expect
- 8 nights' accommodations.
- 8 days of touring with a tour educator and local guides, in a luxury, air-conditioned bus.
- 1st class train ticket from Warsaw to Krakow.
- Separate luggage transfer from Warsaw to Krakow.
- All arrival transfers at the Warsaw airport
- All departure transfers to the Vienna airport.
- Daily breakfast, 3 lunches & 5 dinners.
- Water on the bus.
- Porterage at the hotels.
- All site entrance fees & program fees as per your final program.
- Flights to & from Europe.
- Credit card fees.
- Gratuities are excluded. For groups of 20 and more participants traveling to Central Europe: We recommend the following guidelines for tipping (amounts are in US dollars): Jewish Tour Educator: $12 | Local Guide: $10 | Driver: $5. Amounts are per day per person.
- Extra touring day and night in Vienna (11th of April).
- COVID related expenses, including tests.
- Evening transportation when dinner is not included.
- Amendments to the program: In the event that any sites, programs or meals etc. are added to the program, an additional fee may be required.
- Personal extras: Items of personal nature such as laundry, wines, mineral water, beverages, coffee, tea, food other than the table d’hotel menu, passport and visa fees, insurance, and foreign port taxes, unless otherwise specified.
- US and foreign airport taxes, Q fuel surcharge and border taxes when applicable.
- Please review our terms & conditions (T&C’s) or request that we send you our full T&C’s. Until you do that, here is the small print, and other stuff you may want to know:
- Validity | All prices quoted are based on exchange rates as of the proposal date and are subject to change without notice. Rates are per person and are based on shared twin room occupancy.
- How to Make a Reservation | The quickest way to make a reservation is to register online or contact us by email. We accept VISA, MasterCard, and American Express credit cards. A non-refundable deposit is required in order to complete the registration process.
- For any assistance with this registration process or other trip-related queries, please email Customer Care: [email protected].
- Payments | The balance of your payment is due 90 days before your trip begins, or as specified in your invoice. You will receive an email reminder 2 weeks before this date. Various payment options are available as follows:
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- Beneficiary Instructions: For the benefit of J² Adventures. Account number: 1001858331
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- Cancelation Policy | All cancelations need to be made in writing. The cancelation fee depends on the date when we receive written notification of your request to cancel your booking. Please note that the deposit is non-refundable.
- Cancelation fees | Cancelations made 90 or more days prior to departure incur the loss of the deposit. Cancelations made 89 to 46 days prior to departure incur the loss of 50% of the full trip cost. Cancelations made 45 days or less prior to the departure incur the loss of 100% of the full trip cost.
- Cancelation fees may also include: Hotel or supplier cancelation fees. J² Adventures reserves the right to adjust its terms of payment, including cancelation policies and initial deposits.
- Protect your investment for $495 p/p: Should you cancel your trip up to 5 days before your departure for any reason, our POM program offers you a trip refund. Call 888-230-6008 or e-mail: [email protected].
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