Depart Home for Krakow, Poland
Arrive in Krakow, Poland
Airport Transfer
Check-in, Relax & Refresh
Orientation Walking Tour - The group will become oriented with their neighborhood, the public transportation systems, nearby pharmacies, markets, ATMs, etc. Additionally, an in-depth safety briefing will be provided for what to do incase of an emergency.
Krakow Walking Tour – The city which boasts over 1000 years of history. You will see royal beauty of Krakow filled with medieval architecture, beautiful renaissance palaces, and numerous gorgeous churches.
Welcome Dinner – Jewish-Polish Dinner with Klezmer concert - The group will be taken for an authentic dinner with a wide variety of menu options to cater all diets.
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Polish Cooking Class + Lunch – It’s time to acquire one of the most important skills in Poland: making pierogi, and to enjoy the iconic dumplings made with your own hands - Included
Jewish Krakow Walking Tour – Kazimierz, founded in 14th century as a separate town, today Krakow’s district, was up to the WW2 home to a large Jewish community. Its numerous Synagogues survived the war. The group will also visit the former ghetto area and the Ghetto Heroes' Square in the Podgorze district.
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Day Trip to Auschwitz Concentration Camp – A guided visit (6 hrs) to the Auschwitz-Birkenau, opened in 1940 was the largest of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps (around 1,5 million victims).
Lunch Break
Harmeze Monastery – A guided visit to the “Memory clichés. Mazes,” an evocative exhibition of Marian Kolodziej, a former Auschwitz prisoner (1-2 hrs).
Return to Krakow
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Transfer to Warsaw (Approx 3 hours)
Check-in, Relax & Refresh
Warsaw Walking Tour – Old Town, Royal Castle, Palace of Culture and Science (viewpoint)
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Jewish Warsaw Walking Tour – POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Memorial and Ghetto Area, where the group will visit among others the only still active synagogue that survived the German occupation (out of more than 400 synagogues and smaller places of worship).
Structured Free Time
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Transfer to Berlin (Approx 6 hours)
Check-in, Relax & Refresh
Reichstag Building Dome- On October 30, 1991, the Council of Elders of the Bundestag decided that the historic Reichstag building by architect Paul Wallot from 1894 should be restored and used as the seat of an all-German parliament.
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Berlin Historical & Cultural Walking Tour - Brandenburg Gate, Site of Hitler’s Bunker, Holocaust Memorial, Checkpoint Charlie, Gendarmenmarkt, The Berlin Wall, Pariser Platz, Luftwaffe HQ, Bebelplatz, TV Tower, Book Burning Memorial, and more...
Jewish Museum - The Jewish Museum in Berlin is a museum dedicated to the history, culture, and identity of German Jews. The museum's exhibits cover two millennia of German-Jewish history, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The collection includes artifacts, documents, photographs, and multimedia installations that explore the complex and often tragic relationship between Jews and Germans.
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Dahlem Tour Berlin - TBC - The measurement of humanity Biological research in Dahlem and its impact.
Lunch Break
Topography of Terror Museum Guided Tour- National Socialist terror headquarters: the Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei) with its own prison, the SS command, the SE Security Service (SD), and the Reich Chancellery. From this place the persecution and annihilation of the political enemies of National Socialism at home and abroad was ordered; here the genocide of the Jews was organized
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Graffiti tour - We will take you to the most exciting pieces of street art & graffiti. You will learn about the differences between the two disciplines, which techniques exists and what rules and terms are used in the scene.
Structured Free Time
Farewell Dinner & Program Closing
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Airport Transfer
Depart Berlin, Germany for Home