We are regularly working on new tour offerings. What follows is a list of tours we plan to run in the coming years. At present, we cannot tell you exactly when these tours will be scheduled, but we wanted to provide a taste of “upcoming attractions.” If these topics interest you, you are encouraged to drop us a line and we will add you to our contact list; you will receive updates when these and other tours are offered.
The Holocaust in Poland
Poland was the epicenter of the Holocaust: Six million Poles died from 1939 – 1945, half of them Jews murdered by the Germans. Going to the places where that happened is not always easy, but it is vitally important that we do so. These are sites everyone should visit at least once, to remind us all of what happens “when good people do nothing” and depravity and evil are allowed to hold sway.
Our tour will originate in Warsaw – a grand, tortured place synonymous with the best and worst of modern human history. Here we will visit the most important sites of this rebuilt city, including those associated with two courageous uprisings against Nazi rule: the Ghetto Revolt of 1943 and the Warsaw Rising of 1944. Afterward we travel by coach to the site of the Treblinka extermination camp, second only to Auschwitz in the sheer scale of murder committed there, and then continue to Lublin and the preserved Majdanek concentration camp. We will spend a night at Zamosc (a World Heritage Site town), stop at the location of the Belzec death camp, and then spend three nights in beautiful Krakow – mercifully undamaged by war. Through walking tours, we examine Krakow’s Old Town and former Jewish quarter of Kazimierz, containing a wealth of historical and architectural treasures, and enjoy some free time to savor the city.
We will also visit the site of the Plaszow labor camp, made famous by Schindler’s List, as well as the “Schindler Factory,” now a museum. A full day will be spent at the massive Auschwitz-Birkenau camps. Our final stop will allow us to decompress at the amazing Wieliczka salt mine, a seven-century-old wonder with 200 miles of tunnels, subterranean lakes, and an entire cathedral, all created by centuries of Polish miners.