DAY 1 Friday

WARSAW (Shabbat Dinner)

Upon arrival, you will be met and transferred to your hotel in the heart of the city. After check-in, meet your guide and the group in the hotel lobby for an orientation, followed by a walk through Warsaw's Old Town, before driving to your Shabbat dinner at Beit Warszawa, where you will have a chance to meet and talk with members of the Jewish community in Warsaw.

DAY 2 Saturday

WARSAW (Breakfast, Dinner)

Today you will visit some of the sites, associated with Jewish life in Warsaw. First and foremost is the Nozyk Synagogue, destroyed during the war, but totally renovated and serving Warsaw's Jewish community. Another important area is the Warsaw Ghetto, commemorated today by the monument to the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto. Tonight's dinner of traditional Jewish and Polish-style cuisine at a favorite Jewish restaurant in Old Town also features an evening of Yiddish songs by actors of the Yiddish State Theatre.

DAY 3 Sunday

WARSAW – LODZ (Breakfast, Dinner)

This morning, we visit the 19th century Okopowa Jewish Cemetery, final resting place of prominent Jewish politicians, as well as Jewish officers and enlisted men, who lost their lives in the defense of Warsaw in 1939. After lunch on your own, we leave for Lodz, the crossroads of Polish, German and Jewish traditions. Among the highlights of our visit is a tour of the Poznanski Palace, once the home of a prominent Jewish family. Today it houses the Historical Museum of Lodz. It includes special exhibitions devoted to the world-renowned pianist, Artur Rubinstein and the novelist, Jerzy Kosinski.

DAY 4 Monday

LODZ - KRAKOW (Breakfast, Lunch)

This morning, we take you to the Jewish cemetery, the largest of its kind in Europe. Among the more than 160,000 graves are the remains of noted rabbis, merchants, doctors, politicians and social activists. After lunch, we leave for Krakow. Upon arrival, we take you on a tour of the town's fascinating Old Town area, including the Main Market Square, with its magnificent houses and palaces, historic Cloth Hall, dating to before 1349, but altered in the 16th century, and the magnificent Gothic church of Our Lady with its famous wooden altar, created by Wit Stwosz.

DAY 5 Tuesday

KRAKOW (Breakfast, Dinner)

Krakow, the first European city included in the UNESCO list of great heritage, offers an eye-opening array of architectural monuments and buildings. Our extensive tour of this fabulous city starts at Wawel Castle with its priceless Flemish tapestries, and Wawel Cathedral, where Poland's kings were crowned and are buried. Among points of Jewish interest is the restored Kazimierz District, where Jewish life once flourished. Here you will also find the famous Remuh Synagogue and the Old Synague, with its museum of pre-war Jewish life in Krakow. Following a coffee break at the Cheder Cafe, we next visit the Oscar Schindler Factory, today featuring a dramatic exhibition of "Krakow Under Nazi Occupation: 1939-1945". Dinner tonight will be accompanied by a concert of Klezmer music.

DAY 6 Wednesday

KRAKOW (Breakfast, Lunch)

After breakfast, our tour takes us to the town of Oswiecim. The visit is two-fold. Firstly, we want to show you vestiges of pre-war and wartime Oswiecim and then introduce you to its present-day counterpart. After a visit to the Chewra Lomdej Misznajot Synagogue, we take you to Auschwitz-Birkenau, site of the Nazi's largest concentration camp, where more than 1.5-million people of 28 nationalities, mainly Jews, lost their lives in the crematoria. In late afternoon, there is a stop at the Galicia Museum, which commemorates the Holocaust and Jewish life and culture in Polish Galicia. We have also arranged a meeting the "Righteous Among Nations", brave Polish citizens, who helped Jews survive during the Occupation.

DAY 7 Thursday

KRAKOW – WROCLAW (Breakfast, Lunch)

This morning, we leave for Wroclaw, one of the most beautiful cities in Poland. A blend of many different religions and cultures, it is situated on twelve islands in the Odra River. Our get-acquainted tour of Wroclaw takes us through Market Square, Town Hall, a gem of Gothic-Renaissance architectures and the magnificent Aula Leopoldinum at Wroclaw University. We see vestiges of Jewish life, dating to the 12th century, at the White Stork Synagogue, as well as Wroclaw's Old and New Jewish cemeteries. This evening, after dinner, we shall meet with representatives of Wroclaw's Jewish community.

DAY 8 Friday

WROCLAW – PRAGUE (Breakfast, Dinner)

This morning, after breakfast, we leave Wroclaw (and Poland), as we cross the border into the Czech Republic, en route to Prague, its capital. Prague has an extensive Jewish Quarter, once known as the Prague Jewish Ghetto. Among the highlights of our afternoon walking tour are the Old Jewish Cemetery, the 13th century Alt-Neu Synagogue, the oldest preserved synagogue in Central Europe and the Jubilee Synagogue, so named to honor the 50th anniversary of the accession of Franz Josef I. Dinner this evening will be served on a boat cruising the Vltava with the beautiful panorama of "Golden Prague" as a background.

DAY 9 Saturday

PRAGUE – TEREZIN – PRAGUE (Breakfast and Dinner)

This morning, we drive you to Terezin (Theresienstadt), the "model" concentration camp. On your tour of the camp, we take you to the cemetery, the Memorial monument and a small fortress, with remains of equipment from the camp. After returning to Prague, you have the balance of your day at leisure. A farewell dinner with folkloric entertain is served at one of Prague's typical restaurants.

DAY 10 Sunday, September 16th

PRAGUE (Breakfast)

After breakfast this morning, we transfer you to the airport for the return flight home.