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Jewish Heritage Program to Poland and Prague (11 Days)

Countries Visited	Date	Cost from New York including flights	Cost from New York in Israel Awards Points *	Tour Code
Czech Republic and Poland	May 18-28, 2006	$2450 + $150 registration fee	24500 IAP + $150 registration fee	A001-180506

Includes breakfast and dinner daily - KOSHER STYLE

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
Depart the US on your overnight flight to Poland

Friday, May 19, 2006
Welcome to Poland
Arrive in Warsaw
Tour the city and visit the Old Town Square
Visit the Jewish Historical Institute and Museum
Tour Chopin's Park
Visit the Jewish Cemetery and the Nozyk Synagogue
Kabbalat Shabbat Ceremony
Festive Shabbat Dinner
Overnight: Warsaw
Overnight Warsaw

Saturday, May 20, 2006
Walking Tour of Warsaw will take us to the Ghetto,
Follow Memory Lane from the Monument to the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto to Transportation Square.
Stop at the memorial of Mila 18, headquarters if the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Tour the restored Old Town Square
Havdallah
Overnight: Warsaw

Sunday, May 21, 2006
Today visit Jedwabne site of a massacre of Jews and Tikocin where Jews lived in a shtetle and the synagogue still stands
Continue to the Lopochovo forest
Visit the infamous Treblinka Death Camp
Return to Warsaw
Overnight: Warsaw

Monday, May 22, 2006
Tour Kazimierz Dolny on the Lublin Plateau to visit the Synagogue
Visit the Majdanek death camp
Continue to Sobibor death camp, site of a revolt by the inmates
Overnight Lublin

Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Tour Lezajsk, once center of Hassidic Judaism
Onward to Lancut to see the restored Synagogue - now a Museum,
Visit the Jewish Cemetery in Tarnow
The to Zbilitowska Gora to the mass grave there
Explore the 700 year old Wieliczka salt mines with their unique carvings
Overnight Krakow

Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Tour Kracow beginning with the Wavel Hill
Then explore the Jewish Quarter of Kazimierz
Visit slave labor camp of Plaszow, where Oskar Schindler had his factory
Return to Krakow for a tour of the Old Town Square
In the evening meet with Paulina - one of the Rightious among the Nations
Overnight Krakow

Thursday, May 25, 2006
Drive to Oswiecim, to the Hevara Lomdai Mishnayot Synagogue and Jewish Center to lean about Jewish life in Poland before the Holocaust
Continue to Auschwitz and Birkenau to tour the ruins of the Crematoria and Gas Chambers.
Visit the Auschwitz State Museum
Overnight: en-route Prague

Friday, May 26, 2006
Travel to Prague
Visit the Jewish Quarter of Prague with its beautiful synagogues.
A special visit to the ancient Jewish cemetery.
Kabbalat Shabbat
Overnight Prague

Saturday, May 27, 2006
Shabbat Programs
Enjoy a walking tour of Prague to see the Charles Bridge, the Prague Castle and the Old Town Hall
Overnight: Prague

Sunday, May 28, 2006
Depart for the airport for your flight home

           

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