First journey starts with your
flight from the USA on Wednesday June 10 (day 1
in the schedule below).
Last day
in Europe is Wednesday June 24
Second journey starts in the
USA on Wednesday July 8 (day
1 in the schedule below).
Last day
in Europe is Wednesday July 12
If we arrange the tour including flight ticket a roundtrip is estimated to be $ 800 This page
is under construction (October 10th 2008)
 | Participants leave USA for Amsterdam. We advice
to
travel with Delta Airlines flight 38 from Atlanta.
You'll
have dinner and breakfast
on board.
It is possible however to arrive a day earlier and
we
will take care of your Hotel reservation. Recommended if you think that
jet lag might cause you troubles the first day in Europe.
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Amsterdam Hotel de Witte Bergen
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Welcome
at Amsterdam airport early in the morning where you will be welcomed by
Cor Suijk We start this morning with a cruise through the
canals of Amsterdam The Anne Frank House visit is
next on the program, with a lunch break in the museum coffeeshop Around
2 pm we leave Amsterdam for the Corry ten Boom House, Haarlem. This is
a known hiding place,
similar to the Anne Frank House.
In time
we'll arrive in our Country Hotel, East of Amsterdam for our buffet
dinner and therafter leisure and unpacking the bags.
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The
Anne Frank House in the center of Amsterdam where
you will see the hiding place of Anne Frank and her family. Here they
were save for a long time. This is also the place where Anne wrote her
famous diary. The permanent exhibition shows a part of the original
diary. A tour around the house is certainly a moving experience. |
Intercity
Hotel
 At the
end of this day ( 7 pm) check-in hotel in Celle Germany.
Thereafter
a buffet dinner in town center. | In the
morning (8 am) a visit to Westerbork Transit Camp in the North of
the Netherlands. From here the trains departed to
Auschwitz.
Also Anne Frank was detained
here before
her transport to the death final Camp.
Westerbork
memorial
In Westerbork a guided walk
of the campgrounds and a visit of its museum where we'll have our lunch
break.
There will be documantary video on the bus en route.
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12:30 pm:
Later this
day we visit concentration camp Bergen Belsen, Germany. Camp
Bergen-Belsen was established in 1940 by the army as a P.O.W. camp for
captured French and Belgian soldiers.
In April of
1943 the camp was
handed over to the SS and became a detention place for Jews, initially
intended to exchange them for Germans held prison abroad.
During April
1945 the camp was liberated by British troops.
In
1946 a Jewish
memorial was unveiled followed by the erection of a Soviet memorial for
prisoners of war. In 1947 the British government ordered an obelisk and
a memorial wall. |
The Wannsee Villa in Berlin
where
the extermination of all Jews was decided; the "Final Solution" was a
fact.
It was also the place where in 1936 the
Summer Olympic shootings took place.
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We leave Celle at 8 in the morning for
Berlin with a movie on the bus. At the end of the moring we
visit the Wannsee
Villa.
group
lunch on a lake side restaurant on our way to Berlin with around 2 pm a
visit to women's camp Ravensbruck.
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picture will be altered
 hotel Golden Tulip
7 pm Check-in mid-town hotel Golden Tulip in
Berlin where we have a buffet dinner. |
Jewish museum |
A thorough and guided Berlin
city tour with the bus followed by lunch break.
At
2 pm we visit the
Jewish Museum and for those interested a visit to the Wall
Museum. Leisure time is the other option.
In the
hotel we'll have a buffet dinner.
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Treblinka:
The train station | Today
we arrive in Poland; the town Krakow.
En route we'll enjoy a lunch break and a movie, with a serious
background, will be shown on the monitors, to entertain.
On
the program is a visit to Schindlers' factory, known from the story of
Oskar
Schindler
and the movie made by Stephen Spielberg. Schindler was a German
businessman who saved the lives of over one thousand Polish Jews during
the Holocaust. |
At
7 pm a buffet dinner at the Holiday Inn, our place for this night.
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Auschwitz
entrance | Guided
day, which starts at 8:30pm for our trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau and an
extensive guided tour around; 5 hours including a lunch break.
All over the world, Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror, genocide,
and the Holocaust. It was established by the Nazis in 1940, in the
suburbs of the city of Oswiecim which, like other parts of Poland, was
occupied by the Germans during the Second World War. The name of the
city of Oswiecim was changed to Auschwitz, which became the name of the
camp as well.
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Holiday Inn
At 4pm we return to Krakow for leisure
time and a buffet dinner at the hotel
group lunch |
Time permitting; a visit to what is left of that former Jewish Quarter above
the town on a hill. And the old Jewish Cemetery near the Old "New Synagogue". | Prague in the
Czech Republic is our next destination with a lunch break en route.
The
17th century is considered the Golden Age of Jewish Prague. The Jewish
community of Prague numbered some 15,000 people (approx. 30 per cent of
the entire population), making it the largest Ashkenazic community in
the world and the second largest Jewish community in Europe
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Hotel KuK
7.00pm Group dinner in local restaurant |
The
Clock tower Square
Prague Castle is the
largest castle in the world with its St. Vitus Cathedral
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Castle visit city walk along a choice of
fabulous places :
the Old
Town (Staré Město) with its Old Town Square and Astronomical Clock
The picturesque
Karls (Charles) Bridge.
The New Town (Nové město)
with its busy and historic Wenceslas Square or to the
Malá
Strana (Lesser Quarter).
And after that we'll relax with a lunch. |
Karlsbridge.
After lunch we walk on (guided) through the Jewish section and there will be leisure time enough in Prague
7 pm Group
dinner in local restaurant
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Visit to
the Ghetto museum
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a.m. Guided visit Terezin Ghetto and
Fortress
During WWII, the Gestapo used
Terezín,
better
known by the German name Theresienstadt, as a ghetto, concentrating
Jews from Czechoslovakia, as well as many from Germany, Austria, the
Netherlands and Denmark
p.m. After group lunch visit Lidice village |
Lidice
memorial |
Don
Giovanni |
Camp
Mauthausen
| Austria :
Concentration Camp Mauthausen
was set up to the west of the town. Around 4,500 Jews were gassed, and
110,000 (mostly Soviet soldiers) prisoners died due to the inhumane
work and living conditions.
group lunch
P.m. Stop at "Sound of Music" church
Arrive former Sacher hotel; evening at leisure |
Salzburg
Sacher hotel |
Palace Hofburg
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City
walk or visit to the palace can be arranged.
group dinner & meeting |
Sacher
hotel |
HILTON
hotel Nuremberg
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Dachau concentration camp, Munich
group lunch with author Melissa Mueller
p.m. Stop at Nuremberg Court Building
Check-in Nuremberg Hilton hotel |
Dachau
memorial |
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a.m. Visit ex Nazi Headquarters
& Rallye grounds
p.m. To Amsterdam Airport hotel
farewell dinner |
Nuernberg
Main Headquarter
The Hauhaus on the
Marienplatz:
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| 2009 - Wednesday - day 15 |
| Participants
leave for USA.
Those who purchase their flight tickets themselves, the departure date from Amsterdam is either June 24 or July 22. |
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| For those who want to extend their stay in
Europe we can arrange your hotel and advice on further travel or visits. |
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The videos shown on the bus
partly pertain to the Holocaust sites, which we will watch before visit
them. For the other part they contain information regarding the cities
we are approaching. One video concerns the life of Miep Gies, Anne
Frank's helper.
Pictures are merely a way to give an impression of what we will
actually see on the trip. Hotels in particular always give pictures of
their most beautiful rooms. |
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