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May
2012
| 2012 -
Thursday May 17 (day 1) |
 is a good choice |
Leave
USA for Europe.
Destination will be
Amsterdam (Schiphol Airport)
in the
Netherlands
Arrival time Friday May 18
before
08:30 am participants usually
use the internet to purchase the ticket that matches their
wishes |
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| 2012 - Friday May 18
(day 2) |
1. 8.30am
early
morning welcome at Amsterdam airport by
Cor Suijk and son Johan.
2. 09:00 am Amsterdam, a truly
multicultural city, we start with a boat
cruise through the canals of Amsterdam, a town built in
and on the water. 
3. 11.00
am visit Corry Ten Boom
museum, Haarlem
Much
of the house has been refurbished to appear as it did in the
1940's. Visitors can see the actual "hiding
place," which is
a small area behind a false wall in Corrie's bedroom. This is where
Jews and others were safely hidden from the Nazis.
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4. 2.30 pm
arrival
at the
Anne Frank House in the center of Amsterdam
where you may (optional) visit the hiding place of Anne Frank and her
family. 
Here
they were safe 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 through the house is certainly a
moving experience.
 The
hidden entrance to the loft. |
the
bus
5. 5.30 pm
To country hotel Leusden
Hotel Leusden - Amersfoort
Philipsstraat
18
3833 LC Leusden NL
Tel. +31 (0)33 - 4 345 345
buffet
dinner
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2012 - Saturday May
19 (day 3)
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1. 7.30 am to Westerbork
for guided walk camp grounds
With a
video on the bus, we go to Camp Westerbork in the Northern part of The
Netherlands. Westerbork was the departure place for the train to
Auschwitz. Walking the lanes of this serene place, one still feels the
grief of those humans, who were prisoners at Westerbork. Also Anne
Frank was described here before her transport to the death final Camp.
At Westerbork, we will see a movie reliving its sad history, visit an
expo and memorial, with its bent up railroad tracks .... no train will
ever depart again.
2. 11.00 am after
lunch break to camp
Bergen-Belsen
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3. 4.30 pm visit camp museum and
cemetery Camp Bergen-Belsen
was established in 1940 by the army as a P.O.W. camp for captured
French and Belgian soldiers. 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.
In March 1944,
Bergen-Belsen became a regular concentration camp, holding thousands of
prisoners including the now-famous Anne Frank.
memorial
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4. 7.00 pm check-in
Intercity
hotel á la carte
dinner
Germany
Nordwall 22,
Celle
+49.5141.200701
5. a la carte dinner
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| 2012 - Sunday May 20 (day
4) |
1. 8.00 am
to Berlin
A
visit to the Wannsee
Villa where the extermination of all Jews was
decided.
In 1942 a group of 16
prominent Nazi's, 9 of them with a Ph.D.!, decided the "Final
Solution": the killing of all European Jews.
Brandenburg Tor
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2.
2.00 pm 3 hour city sightseeing tour
Synagogue in
Berlin Berlin is a sophisticated central
European metropolis and again Germany's capital. It has a western area
with real nightlife, parks and woodlands. The eastern part of Berlin
has old townhouses and many restaurants.
Well known is the
Brandenburg Tor, the gate that toJune (since 1989) is the symbol of
unity, former glory of the nazi's.
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pm
Golden Tulip Hotel
Golden
Tulip
Hotel Hamburg
Landgrafenstrasse
4,
Berlin +49.30.264770
4. dinner
Berlin former Checkpoint Charlie
-
Friedrichsstrasse.
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| 2012 - Monday May 21
(day 5) |
1. 9.00
am to Ravensbrueck
In 1939, the SS had the largest
women's concentration camp in the German Reich built in the Prussian
village of Ravensbrück |
1.00
pm further to Dresden
visit
Dom and Zwinger,
or outer ward. It is actually just the free space between the inner and
outer ring of the city walls. In Dresden, the capital of Saxony, the
most splendid outer ward in the world was created for the prestigious
festivities of the European aristocracy in the early 18th century.
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3. 7.00
pm check-in Holiday Inn, Dresden
dinner
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| 2012 - Tuesday May 22
(day 6) |
1. 8.00 am
to Auschwitz-Birkenau
for 4 hour guided visit
This
Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp was a network of Nazi
concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third
Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It
was the largest of the German concentration camps, consisting of
Auschwitz I (the Stammlager or base camp); Auschwitz
II–Birkenau
(the Vernichtungslager or extermination camp); Auschwitz
III–Monowitz, also known as Buna–Monowitz (a labor
camp);
and 45 satellite camps.[2]
Although the former
ghetto had largely fallen into decline since World War II, the area is
rapidly changing in response to the renewed interest brought about by
the film, Schindler's List and the Jewish culture, if not the Jewish
community, is being revived with lively Klezmer concerts in the city's
theaters.
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| 6. 5.00
pm to Krakow for
check-in and dinner in
Hotel Andel's
Hotel
Andel's
PL 31-154 Cracow
ul. Pawia 3
Tel.: +
48 12 660 01 00
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| 2012 - Wednesday
May 23
(day 7) |
| 1. 9.00
am visit to Schindlers'
factory prominantly featured in the film. 
On the factory grounds is a plaque:
"The
workplace over 1000 Jewish nationality persons. During second world war
saved their life by Oskar Schindler". 2. 10.00 am further
to Prague, Czech Republic
lunch en route
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3. 6.00
pm check-in and dinner at K und K hotel
Central K+KHybrenska
10,
Praha, Chech Republik+420.225022000
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| 2012 - Thursday May 24
(day 8) |
1. 9.00 am
to Terezin
Terezin for 3 hour guided visit to the Ghetto museum with a
permanent exhibition on its history. And to the small fortress, the former camp
and the Jewish Cemetery with an exhibition and a memorial.
Ghetto residents were interned
here until the Nazis dispersed the ashes in an attempt to cover their
crimes.
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p.m. after lunch optional to Lidice village: we visit
the village that was destroyed by the Nazis in June 1942 after the
assassination of the Nazi governor Reinhard Heydrich. We'll visit too
the museum
and movie
in commemoration of the population of this Catholic village of which
all men were killed and woman and their children deported in 1942Of the
503 people who once lived in Lidice, 340 perished.
143
women returned from Ravensbrook
(Ravensbrück) after the war, and after two years of searching,
17 of the children were recovered. To this June, some of the children
of Lidice who were adopted and raised as Germans have no idea whom they
really are. 
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3. 4.00 pm
leisure in Prague
4. Back to KuK hotel
Central K+K
dinner
in local restaurant
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| 2012 - Friday May 25 (day
9) |
1. 7.30 am to Mauthausen.
In
March of 1938 the "Anschluss" took place, Austria joined Germany. That
same year the Mauthausen concentration camp was established close to
the city of Linz, which was designated as the "Führer" town.
300 Inmates started the construction of the camp which reached
completion around 1942. Most of the inmates were forced to perform
extreme hard labor in the quarry, which often led to their physical
breakdown. On May 5, 1945 Mauthausen was liberated by the U.S. army.
Introductory
video on the bus and audio assisted visit
 Camp Mauthausen
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2. lunch en route
3. 1.30 pm
to Berchtesgaden
visit
Eagles Nest
you
will walk through a marble-lined tunnel 400 feet into the heart of the
mountain. There you will ride the original brass elevator 400
feet straight up into the Eagle's Nest building at the top of the
mountain.
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4. 6.00 pm Salzburg check-in
Im Lauer hotel
5. dinner
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| 2012 - Saturday May 26 (day
10) |
| 2012 - Sunday May 27 (day 11) |
1. 9.00 am Court House Neurenberg
(Nuremberg).
Nazis
were tried for crimes against peace and humanity in the
Schwurgerichtssaal 600 (Courtroom 600). The Allies chose Nuremberg for
obvious symbolic reasons. The building was also easily accessible and
one of few such complexes to survive the war intact. Held between 1945
and 1946, 22 leaders and 150 underlings were convicted; dozens were
executed. Since 2010 there is museum.
2. 10.00
am to Amsterdam with lunch stop en route |
| 3. 7.00
pm check-in
Van der Valk Airport hotel
a
la carte dinner
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| 2012 - Monday May 28
(day 12) |
 | Return
to the USA
or maybe an extension of
your stay in Europe, we love to help you planning this. |
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includes:
.. airco hotels with breakfast
.. admission fees and tour guides
.. ground travel in private coach
.. movies, documentaries, and
much
Holocaust information
on the bus
.. en route itinerary changes
possible
if all agree
.. seasoned driver and escort
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Nature
of the tour is that
of a moving classroom. En route Cor presents info re the vital aspects
of the places visited. He also offers challenging views on human
behavior and State policies as well as many anecdotes.
Relevant
movies and documentaries are shown en route on the bus.
Participants
travel in a comfortable business class coach with 2 drivers
and Cor
Suijk as fulltime escort. They
stay in center city luxury hotels with buffet breakfast, and an a la
carte 3 course dinner daily. All local guides,admissions
and gratuities included. At meals other than soft drinks will be at the
participant´s expense. Tipping is not expected nor accepted.
If
you bring a roommate we offer the trip for Euro 2,250 per person
exclusive
of airfare, payable April 1,2012 Single room Euro 2,790.
Sometimes
we manage to provide the address of a possible rooommate for you to
contact and to agree with first
Enrollment
requires a non refundable $250 deposit, not later than 10 weeks before
departure date. A personal check made out to Cornelis Suijk should be
forwarded to US manager Joshua Miller, 530 Enright Ave, Cincinnati, OH
45205.
Final payment will decrease by that with Euro 180,-.
This
final payment should be executed by wire not later than 6 weeks before
departure.
Your banker needs the following info:
Cornelis
Suijk, Reumontstrasse 4, 52064 Aachen, Germany,
account
54.19.38.347 with ABN-AMRO bank, branch Maastrichterlaan, 6290
AA Vaals, the Netherlands
IBAN:
NL62ABNA0541938347
BIC: ABNANL2A
We
make hotel and local guide reservations in advance, therefore,
enrollment for the May 2012 journey requires a non
refundable $250 deposit, not later than beginning of March 2012
I
gladly look forward to your response!
Warm
regards, Cor Suijk
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The videos shown on the bus
partly pertain to the Holocaust sites we will visit shortly before we
are visiting 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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