4 Day Trip From Warsaw: Poland Jewish Heritage Tour

8.00 a.m. Warsaw – Treblinka (115 km / 72 miles)

9.30 a.m. Treblinka: Museum of Struggle and Martyrdom of Treblinka. Permanent exhibition in the museum with multimedia shows. Symbolic railway track and the platform on which the selection was made. Monument in honor of the murdered. Cremation place.

11.00 a.m. Treblinka – Tykocin (105 km / 65 miles)

12.30 a.m. Tykocin: Great Synagogue: Main Hall (XVII century), Room of Rabin, memorabilia of the Jews of Tykocin. Talmudic House: Old Pharmacy, interior of bourgeois home.

3.00 p.m. Tykocin – Lublin (260 km / 162 miles)

7.00 p.m. Lublin. Accommodation in a hotel chosen by the Ordering Party. Free time. 

8.00 a.m. Lublin: Guided sightseeing of Lublin. Multicultural trail – among others Orthodox Church, old Jewish quarter, Chapel of the Holy Trinity, monument to the Union of Lublin and Evangelical-Augsburg Church. Trail of Jewish culture – among others Jewish quarter, “Chevra Nosim” synagogue, Yeshiva – former Jewish school, Jewish cemetery. The Most Beautiful Places of Lublin – among others Castle Hill with Castle of Lublin, Grodzka Gate, Basilica of the Dominican Fathers, Market Square with building of Crown Court, Cathedral, Cracow Gate, New Town Hall, promenade and Lithuanian Square.

10.00 a.m. KL Majdanek: Gate – memorial and survived entrance gate to the camp. Rosengarten – Selection Square. Barrack 41 (bath, gas chambers). Barrack 45 (mock camp). Barrack 47 (multimedia exhibition – history of the camp). Barrack 52 (tangible evidence of the crime – shoes of the victims). Barrack 62 (prisoners of Majdanek – historical exhibition). Barrack 14 and 15 (conditions of life in the camp). Column of Three Eagles. Crematorium. Execution ditches. Mausoleum. Board commemorating the victims of “Enterfest” execution.

12.00 a.m. Lublin – Belzec (130 km / 80 miles)

2.00 p.m. Belzec Museum:  Railway platform. Museum – camp exhibits, photos. Ohel niche – symbolic names of the victims. Stone stack – iron inscription of villages of deported Jews.

3.00 p.m. Belzec – Lezajsk (100 km / 62 miles)

4.30 p.m. Lezajsk. Lizhensk: Grave of Rabin, memorabilia of the Jews of Lezajsk.

5.30 p.m. Lezajsk – Lancut (35 km / 21 miles)

6.00 p.m. Lancut. Baroque Synagogue in Lancut (completed 1761).

6.30 p.m. Lancut – Krakow (180 km / 111 miles)

8.30 p.m. Krakow. Accommodation in a hotel chosen by the Ordering Party. Free time.

9.00 a.m. Krakow: Sightseeing of Krakow (2 hours) by electric bus with audio-guide (26 languages). Tour: Church of St. Adalbert, St. Mary’s Church. Church of St. Cross, Juliusz Słowacki Theater, Florian’s Gate, Barbican, Czartoryski Museum, Cloth Hall, Town Hall Tower, Franciscan Church, Wawel Castle, Piarist Church, Street of St. John, Church of St. John, Palace of Arts, Collegium Novum, Collegium Maius, Bishop’s Palace, Planty Park, remains of the ramparts of Kraków, Kazimierz Town Hall, Wolnica Square, Corpus Christi Church, Temple Synagogue, Old Synagogue, Popper Synagogue, Remuh Synagogue, Isaac Synagogue, Kupa Synagogue, High Synagogue, Synagogue on the Hill, New Square, Church of St. Catherine, Skałka, Church of theHoly Trinity, Gestapo Prison, Broad Street, New Cemetery, River Vistula, Ghetto at Podgórz, Under the Eagle Pharmacy, Ghetto Heroes Square, History of the Ghetto and its inhabitants, O. Schindler Factory, walls of the Ghetto, Market Square of Podgórze, Church of St. Joseph, Church of St. Benedict, Fort of St. Benedict, Krak Mound, Zucker Synagogue.

12.00 a.m. Krakow. Oscar Schindler’s Factory. You will see a museum exhibition “Kraków Under Nazi Occupation 1939–1945” in Oskar Schindler’s Factory.

2.00 p.m. Krakow. KL Plaszow.

3.00 p.m. Krakow. Return to a hotel in Krakow. Free time.

7.00 a.m. Krakow – Oswiecim (70 km / 44 miles)

9.00 a.m. Auschwitz and Birkenau Museum. Auschwitz Museum I. Camp Gate with Arbeit Macht Frei inscription. Blocks 4 (doom exhibition – general information, model of gas chamber and crematorium, cans of Zyklon B). Block 5 (material evidence of crimes exhibition – human hair, suitcases, dentures, glasses, shoes). Block 6 (everyday life of prisoner – daily schedule, rations). Block 7 (living conditions of prisoners – toilets, washrooms, rooms with bunk beds). Block 11 (Death Block, cells in penalty bunker, cell of St. Maximilian Kolbe, penal standing, Wall of Death). Parade ground, gallows and place of death of Rudolf Hoess, crematorium I. Museum of Auschwitz II – Birkenau. Camp Gate with administration buildings of SS. Place of selection. Railway platform. Barracks in male section. Gas chambers.

12.00 p.m. Oswiecim – Lodz (230 km / 142 miles)

3.30 p.m. Lodz: Sightseeing of Jewish Heritage Trail in Lodz: Empire of Izrael Poznanski (Manufactory), Palace of Karol Poznanski, Palace of Maurycy Poznanski, New Theater, Pinkus House, Seat of of the Jewish Literary and Musical Society “Hazomir”, Piotrkowska Street, Synagogue at the Revolution of 1905 Street, headquarters of the Jewish Community at the Pomeranian Street, monument of the Decalogue, Old Town Square, trail of Litzmannstadt Ghetto, Jewish cemetery.

6.00 p.m. Lodz – Warsaw (140 km / 86 miles)

8.00 p.m. Warsaw. End of the trip.