Travel, Prague, transfer

Round trip of the most important sites of Jewish history in Central Europe can be chosen.

1st day
Prague
Arrival in Prague, the city of the World Cultural Heritage. Transfer to the hotel in the city centre.
A visit of the Old Jewish Town consists of: the Old-New Synagogue, which is the oldest synagogue in Central Europe, the Old Jewish Cemetery ("Bet Hayyin" in Hebrew - the Life's House), Spanish and Maisel Synagogues with the exposition "History of the Jews in Bohemia and Moravia", and Pinkas Synagogue - the memorial of the holocaust victims from Bohemia and Moravia.
Night in Prague.

2nd day
Prague - Terezín (Theresienstadt) - Prague
In the morning you can visit the New Jewish Cemetery founded in 1891 with the tomb of Franz Kafka, a famous writer of Jewish-German origin from Prague, and the tomb of Max Brod, one of Kafka's literary friends.
In the afternoon we can organize a visit of Terezín (Theresienstadt), an antique military fortress from the 18-century, converted in a ghetto for European Jews and a concentration camp during the World War II.
Night in Prague.

3rd day
Prague - Plzeň (Pilsen) – Dachau - Munich
Let`s visit the Great Synagogue in Pilsen, the biggest in Bohemia and Moravia and one of the biggest in Europe. Continuing to Dachau, you can see the concentration camp opened in 1933.
Night in Munich.

4th day
Munich – Mauthausen - Vienna
Departure for Austria. On the way we can visit Mauthausen, the concentration camp during the World War II, liberated by American Army. Then we continue to Vienna, passing through the river Danube valley.
Night in Vienna.

5th day
Vienna
We propose a morning visit of Jewish Town and the house of the founder of Zionist movement, Jewish writer and politician, Theodor Herzel, and afterwards a visit of Jewish Museum in Vienna.
Night in Vienna.

6th day
Vienna - Budapest
After the arrival in Budapest, an afternoon visit of Jewish Quarter with the Museum and the Synagogue Dohány, which is one of the biggest synagogues in Europe, can be done.
Night in Budapest.

7th day
Budapest - Mikulov (Nikolsburg) - Brno
In the morning we depart for Mikulov (Nikolsburg), a small and a lovely town at Czech-Austrian border, an important political, spiritual and cultural centre of Jews from Moravia, which was also the residence of the rabbi from the mid of the 16-century till 1861.
Night in Brno.

8th day
Brno - Svitavy (Brünlitz) - Cracow
Let’s continue to Svitavy, the native town of Oscar Schindler, who saved 1200 Jews during the war and became famous due to the movie "The Schindler's List", by Steven Spielberg. We visit his Memorial.
Arrival and night in Cracow.

9th day
Cracow - Oswiecim (Auschwitz) - Cracow
In the morning a visit of Jewish Quarter in Cracow which dates back to the 15-century and was transformed into a ghetto at the beginning of the World War II. In the afternoon a visit of the biggest concentration camp of the World War II, Oswiecim, founded in 1940, where millions of Jews died and were murdered particularly in gas chambers. In spite of the fact that the concentration was closed in November 1944 Jewish people were dying also on the way out during "death marches". Nowadays Cracow and Oswiecim are parts of the World Cultural Heritage.

10th day
Cracow - Warsaw
The tour finishes in the capital of Poland, Warsaw, which was one of the most destroyed European cities during the World War II with more than 700 000 victims. Only few from 350 000 Jews who had lived in the city at the beginning of the war survived. Warsaw had been the centre of antifascist resistance but the Warsaw insurrection in November 1943 was brutally suppressed by SS army. There is no city in Europe, which would have suffered more. Today Warsaw is the city of the World Cultural Heritage, too. The visit of the No�yk Synagogue (which dates back to 1902 and is the only one preserved) and of the Jewish Cemetery, founded in 1806, with 100 000 tombs, can become one of the most impressive moments of the tour.
Night in Warsaw.

11th day
Warsaw
End of the tour.