Tuesday, July 2

We will begin our tour at Warsaw's Jewish cemetery, where we will meet over 200 years of Warsaw's illustrious Jewish personalities. We will continue to the Warsaw Ghetto, and learn of the horrific living conditions which led to the death of approximately 100,000 Jews. From there, we will visit Mila 18, the bunker headquarters of the Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB) - the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Heroes, followed by the Umschlagplatz, the gathering point from where an estimated 254,000 of Warsaw's Jews were loaded into cattle cars and sent to the Treblinka.

We will then head to Treblinka, the extermination camp where 900,000 Jews were executed upon arrival.

Wednesday, July 3

We will  being our day at the illustrious Yeshiva of Chachmei Lublin, the prestigious pre-Holocaust Yeshiva where the Daf Yomi was invented and where one needed to memorize 400 pages of Talmud to apply. We will experience the Yeshiva with a shiur given by Rabbi Goldsmith. We will then take a short drive to Majdanek Concentration Camp, where the original gas chambers and crematorium still stand. 

We will end our day at the kever of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk, the father of a Hasidic dynasty and author of the "Noam Elimelech," with a lively tisch.

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Thursday, July 4

We will visit the picturesque baroque style shul of the town of Lancut. We will then travel to Tarnow's market square from where the local Jews were rounded up and deported, and see the remains of Tarnow's Old Synagogue. 

We will pay respect at Zbylitowska Gora, the forest where 7,000 of Tarnow's Jews were murdered, and visit the mass grave of 800 Jewish children.

We will then head to Krakow, and visit Osckar Schindler's factory and the Old Jewish cemetery of Krakow, where we will "meet" the 16th century halachic authority, Rabbi Moshe Isserles (Ramah) and Yossele the Holy Miser.

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Friday, July 5

We will visit Auschwitz I and the museum of genocide. See the piles of belongings of those who were gassed. Look through the book of the names and history of 4,200,000 of the Nazi's victims. We will also visit Birkenau, the "Jewish Auschwitz." Stand where the infamous selection was conducted by Dr. Josef Mengele. Witness the horrifying living conditions.

Before shabbat begins, we will pay our respects at Sarah Shnirer's kever. As the founder of the Bais Yaakov Schools, she is known as the mother of advanced Torah studies for women.

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We will daven Kabbalat Shabbat in the Isaac Shul, built in the 17th century, followed by a spirited Shabbat dinner.

Shabbat, July 6

We will experience teffilat Shabbat in the famous Shul of Rabbi Moshe Isserles (The Ramah), followed by a walking tour of Krakow's Synagogues, including the progressive Temple Synagogue, and the Alta Shul. Our festive Shabbat lunch will be followed by a women's shiur by Michelle Elmaleh at the location of the first Bais Yaakov. Shabbat afternoon will include a visit to the Galicia Museum, featuring a photo exhibition documenting the remnants of Jewish culture and life in Polish Galicia.

Guest Speaker:

Meet a Polish Gentile who has been honoured by the State of Israel with the Righteous Among the Nations Medal.

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Sunday, July 7

Lodz's Jewish cemetery is Europe's largest Jewish cemetery. There, we will visit the tribute to Bnei Akiva and the 6 empty mass graves. We will visit the Lodz Ghetto, where the Judenrat demanded parents to hand over their children to the Nazis. We will enter the Radegast cattle car and hear of the road to agony.

We will then take the one hour journey to Chelmno, the first Nazi extermination camp - where diesel from the exhaust pipe of a truck was used to gas approximately 300,000 Jews. Then we will visit Dabie, a shtetl where the shul now serves as a Polish apartment building.

We will end our tour with a closing dinner, after which transfer to Warsaw's WAW Airport and local hotels will be provided.

*Subject to change