PROGRAM OF THE TOUR:

Day 1 - Warsaw

- group arrival (Warsaw airport/ railway station)

- bus transfer to the hotel, check in,

- half day free time in Warsaw or Historical Warsaw walking tour:a-must essential Warsaw, history of Warsaw as a capital of Poland. Walk around the most important architecture of the Old and New Towns - including Royal Castle square with Sigismund's Column, narrow street of Old Town, st. John's Cathedral, St. Martin church, Market square, the Barbican and city walls, monuments of Old Town.

- dinner

Day 2 - Warsaw

- after breakfast -6 hour Warsaw Jewish Ghetto tour:

In Warsaw ghetto, divided into 2 sections 460,000 Jews were forced to live in very crowded conditions. By the time of deportations to the extermination camps, about 100,000 residents of the Ghetto had died of starvation or disease. After 1943 Uprising the ruins of the Ghetto were levelled,and a new residential district was built right on top of them, making the new buildings one level higher than the pre-war buildings had been.

Itinerary:

– Jewish Historical Institute (exhibition and film),

– Ghetto area (remains of ghetto walls, synagogue, monuments and historical sites),

– Jewish cemetery

– lunch during the tour

- dinner independent

Day 3 -Tykocin and Treblinka

 - after breakfast depart Warsaw for full day tour to Tykocin Jewish shtetl and Treblinka extermination camp

Tykocin was once an important trade centre owned by Polish kings, by 1800 became a typical Jewish shtetl. All of the 2,500 Jewish residents of Tykocin were taken to the nearby Lopuchowo forest and shot by the Nazis in the Summer of 1941. Today Tykocin looks the same as it did before WW2 -you can still see Jewish wooden houses, one of the finest synagogues in Poland built in 1642 (now museum) and admire the perfect harmony of both Christian and Jewish architecture.

- lunch en route

Treblinka,opened on July 23, 1942, as the Warsaw ghetto deportation began established became a symbol of the extermination of the central European with total 850 thousand victims. Handled with the utmost of secrecy, surrounded by two barbed wire fences was a scene of organized revolt of Jewish prisoners in August 1943, after which was liquidated in October 1943.

- return to Warsaw (at ca 19.00), dinner independent

Day 4 - Lublin

- after breakfast depart Warsaw to Lublin  

- Jewish Lublin tour and Majdanek concentration camp tour with local guide  

- lunch during the day

- check-in (hotel in Lublin), free time, dinner independent

Day 5 – Kazimierz Dolny

- after breakfast depart Lublin for Warsaw  

- Kazimierz Dolny tour en route - a considerable tourist attraction as one of the most beautifully situated little towns in Poland. It preserved its Renaissance urban plan and appearance. Jewish community was present in the city from the time of Casimir III the Great in the 14th century. The king granted the Jews a writ of rights which caused the town to become a focal point for Jewish immigration. In the 19th century, Yehezkeal Taub, a disciple of the Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin (the "Seer of Lublin"), founded the Hassidic dynasty of Kozimir in the town.

- lunch in Kazimierz Dolny

- transfer to Warsaw airport/ railway station