This itinerary provides a 8-day tour of important Jewish heritage sites throughout Poland, including cemeteries, former ghettos and camps, and synagogues in major cities like Warsaw, Lublin, Krakow, Lodz, and more. The tour offers daily transportation between sites and hotel accommodations, with local guides and events to learn about Polish Jewish history and culture.

1. Jewish Heritage in
Poland
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2. Jewish heritage­ memory trail
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Jewish heritage in Poland.
Our tour will take you to many memorial places, important not
only for Jewish, but also for Poles.
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3. 1st day
Arrival to Warsaw
Jewish cemetery Okopowa: one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe and in the world located on
Warsaw's Okopowa street.
Góra Kalwaria is a town on the Vistula River in the Mazovian Voivodship, Poland, about 25 kilometres
southeast of Warsaw. The town has significance for both Catholic Christians and Hasidic Jews. Originally, its
name was simply Góra (literally: "Mountain"), changed in 1670 to Nowa Jerozolima ("New Jerusalem"),
and in the 18th century to Góra Kalwaria ("Calvary Mountain"). The Yiddish name of the town is ‫גער‬ (Ger).
Ghetto The Umschlagplatz was the square in Warsaw under German occupation, where Jews were
gathered for deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp as part of Operation
Reinhard during genocides in Poland.
The Nożyk Synagogue is the only surviving prewar Jewish house of prayer in Warsaw. It was built in
1898­1902 and was restored after World War II. It is still operational and currently houses the Warsaw
Jewish Commune, as well as other Jewish organizations.
Hotel in Warszawa ( we have in our offer all kinds of accommodation)

4. 2nd day
Parczew is a town in eastern Poland. An organized Jewish community existed in the town since the early 16th
century. Just before the outbreak of World War II the Jewish community numbered 5,000, more than half of the
town's population. During the German occupation of Poland the Jews were first confined to a ghetto crammed
with inhabitants of neighbouring settlements as well.
Włodawa was over 70% Jewish before World War II and the Holocaust. The Włodawa Ghetto was set up in the
early part of the war.
Kazimierz Dolny, one of the most charming cities in Poland. A small 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. When John III Sobieski became King in 1674, he
granted the Jews of Poland a respite from taxes.
Sobibor camp was a Nazi German extermination camp located on the outskirts of the village of Sobibór, in
occupied Poland. The camp was part of the secretive Operation Reinhard, which marked the deadliest phase of
the Holocaust in German­occupied Poland.
Jesziwat Chachmei Lublin founded by Rabbi Meir Shapiro was an important centre for Torah study in Poland.
Hotel in Lublin ( we have in our offer all kinds of accommodation)

5. 3rd day
Jewish cemetery in Lublin is located on a hill between Kalinowszczyzna and Sienna Streets. The
cemetery overlooks the Old Town and is entirely surrounded by a high, seventeenth­century wall. It is
located on the site of a former medieval fortress, and was once surrounded by numerous backwaters.
Majdanek camp was a Nazi German concentration and extermination camp established on the
outskirts of the city of Lublin during the German occupation of Poland in World War II.
The cemetery of Szczebrzeszyn is a unique monument in the whole region, one of the oldest
landmarks of this type in Poland.
Zamość­ the first Jews settled in Zamosc in 1588, eight years after the founding of the town. They
were Sephardim (Spanish Jews) coming from the Ottoman Empire and Venice and, consequently
established the northernmost Sephardi community in Eastern Europe.
Hotel in Zamość ( we have in our offer all kinds of accommodation)

6. 4th day
Bełżec camp was the first of the Nazi German extermination camps created for the purpose of
implementing the secretive Operation Reinhard
Markowa city where during World War II many families in the village hid their Jewish neighbours to
help them survive the Holocaust. It is now estimated that at least 17 Jews survived the war in
Markowa.
Łańcut­ Castle and Synagogue, built in 1761. although plain on the exterior, the interior walls and
ceiling are decorated with restorations of paintings and stuccowork from the 18th century and
polychromies from the 19th – 20th centuries.
Zbylitowska Góra is the site of a mass grave from World War II, which is marked by a monument. In
June 1942 approximately 10,000 people, including 6,000 Jews and about 800 children were executed by
the German Nazis, and buried in pits in the Buczyna forest in Zbylitowska Góra
Płaszów camp was a Nazi German labour and concentration camp built by the SS in Płaszów, a
southern suburb of Kraków
Hotel at Kraków ( we have in our offer all kinds of accommodation)

7. 5th day
Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp was a network of German Nazi concentration camps
and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi
Germany during World War II. It consisted of Auschwitz I (the original camp), Auschwitz II–Birkenau
(a combination concentration/extermination camp), Auschwitz III–Monowitz (a labor camp to staff an
IG Farben factory), and 45 satellite camps.
Hotel in Kraków

8. 6th day
Synagogue Tempel and Remuh, Izaak are an outstanding collection of monuments of Jewish sacred
architecture unmatched anywhere in Poland. The seven main synagogues of the Jewish District of Kazimierz
constitute the largest such complex in Europe next to Prague. It is a unique on the European scale religious
complex prescribed on the list of UNESCO world heritage sites along with the entire city district in 1978, as
the first ever.
The Galicia Jewish Museum exists to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and celebrate the Jewish
culture of Polish Galicia, presenting Jewish history from a new perspective. An innovative and unique institution
located in Kazimierz, the Jewish district of Kraków, Poland, the Museum is a registered charity in Poland.
Tadeusz Pankiewicz’s Pharmacy in Kraków Ghetto is located within the limits of the former ghetto area
and commemorating the Holocaust of Kraków Jews and the personage of Tadeusz Pankiewicz, a Righteous
among the Nations.
Oskar Schindler's Factory exhibition under Nazi Occupation 1939–1945 is located in the former
administrative building of Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory at 4 Lipowa Street.
In the evening : Klezmer music
Hotel in Kraków

9. 7th day
Oświęcim Jewish Center commemorates and educates about the Jewish history of Oświęcim.
Through the core exhibition, Oshpitzin, visitors can explore the lives of the Jews of Oświęcim through
photographs, artifacts, and survivor testimony.
Łódź Jews began settling Lodz in the late 1700's. The Jewish community began to be organized and
had built a synagogue. A cemetery was opened from 1811 until 1892, unfortunately it was destroyed
in World War II. Lodz fell under Russian control in the 1820's. During this time, Jewish factory
owners, merchants, bankers, industrialists and blue­collar workers played an important role in
developing Lodz's economy, and the city became an important industrial center.
Hotel in Łódź

10. 8th day
Jewish cemetery at Łódź
The Radogoszcz station built originally between 1926 and 1937, is a small historic railway station in
Łódź, Poland. During World War II the station was situated just beyond the boundary of the Łódź
Ghetto – one of the biggest Jewish ghettos in German­occupied Europe.
Chełmno, also known as Kulmhof, was a small town roughly 50 miles from the city of Lodz. It was
here that the first mass killings of Jews by gas took place as part of the "Final Solution."
The Museum of the History of Polish Jews opened its doors to the public in April 2013. It
currently functions as a cultural and educational center with a rich cultural program, including
temporary exhibitions, films, debates, workshops, performances, concerts, lectures and much more.
Airport departure Warsaw

11. We offer:
● Accommodation suitable for our guests
● Transfers for big and small groups
● Tour guides with Hebrew
● Local events and dinners
● Many more

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with preparing your own package to meet
your expectations.
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