The Holocaust
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22 - 29 July 2008 |
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This is a journey of pilgrimage and remembrance to a place and time of major importance in 20th century history. Your guides on this tour are Peter Knox and Thomas Kacer, a Polish survivor of the Holocaust.
From 1933, when Hitler came to power, until 1945 when his Nazi regime in Germany was finally destroyed, up to twenty million people were eliminated within the Greater Reich. Six million were of the Jewish faith; over one million Jews were children under ten years old. The ethnic cleansing of Nazi controlled countries resulted in the establishment of Concentration Camps where inmates were quite literally worked to death as slave labourers. In 1942 Goering, Hitler’s deputy, ordered a ‘final solution’ to the Jewish problem and from then on Death Camps or Concentration Camps sprang up, equipped with the apparatus of mass destruction. This was the time of the Holocaust.
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Our Holocaust tour recalls the tragedy of those years and visits the sites of death camps in Poland; Treblinka, near Warsaw; Majdanek near Lublin and the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp, west of Krakow. At the memorials that keep their memory of the Holocaust victims alive, we pay our own respects to those who perished.
Although it has seen an enormous amount of tragedy, Poland is essentially a vivacious country and we see much of cultural and scenic interest as we drive across the county, visit the Salt Mine at Wieliczka and the famous old cities of Warsaw, Lubin and Krakow and enjoy the food in some of the local restaurants. |
Itinerary
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(Tuesday): We begin with Titan's VIP Home Departure Service™ to the airport. Fly London to Warsaw. Check into our hotel for a 2 night stay with dinner. |
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| Day 2 |
Guided tour of Warsaw including the Old City, The Path of Remembrance and Jewish Warsaw and the Polish Army Museum. Free time and own dinner arrangements.
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| Day 3 |
Further visits in Warsaw before we travel to the Labour Camp at Treblinka. We have a picnic lunch and drive on to Lubin, the 12 century capital city. Time to explore Lubin Old Town, before our overnight stay with dinner at the hotel.
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| Day 4 |
Today we visit the Majdanek Death Camp, part of the State Museum. Then travel south to out hotel in Krakow for a four night stay. Dinner at the hotel. |
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| Day 5 |
Tour of Krakow’s Old Jewish quarter, including the Old Synagogue, Museum of History & Culture of Krakow Jewry and Schindler´s Krakow. In the afternoon we travel out to the famous Salt Mine at Wieliczka with its labyrinth of tunnels, chapels, underground lakes and museum. Own dinner arrangements. |
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| Day 6 |
A full and sombre day as we go to the death camp of Auschwitz, entering beneath the infamous inscription ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’. Then to Birkenau, the purpose built concentration camp that had over 300 prison blocks and four massive gas chambers. Dinner at our hotel. |
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| Day 7 |
Time to explore Old Krakow, the ancient Royal Capital of Poland, with the legendary Wawel Castle, cathedral and the largest town square in Europe. We will have dinner at one of the many traditional restaurants. |
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| Day 8 |
We fly home from Krakow to London, where we will be met at the Airport by Titan staff, who will greet you and transfer you to your Titan transport for the return journey to your front door.
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