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EUROPEAN CONTEMPORARY HISTORY TOURS 2008 
Customized - Tailor-  made journeys

CUSTOMIZED TOURS
we offer tailor-made journeys to any destination at your choice in Western & Eastern Europe!

Here are FIVE PAGES with examples of our Tours as done before. You may alter the routes or use as basis for your route.
Final dates will be settled by email.

A minimum of 6 participants is required, paying a rate of an average $ 200 per day, per person, exclusive of air fare.

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Below, on this first page, a schedule for a tour.

The examples are giving just the basic information for planning your trip. You may add your personal wishes and we send you a proposal by email. Depending of course on the number of guests on the tour and vehicle used.A maximum average of 250 miles per day applies. The fare includes double occupancy stay at a first class hotel with buffet breakfast and a hot meal dailytrips to the Baltic States and St-Petersburg in Rusia are also possible, Both driver and full time escort are seasoned experts..
 
2008 - Day - 1   


Leave USA for Europe.

Destination of your choice
(close to the first place to visit)

2008 - Day 2

The Clock tower Square

Meet your family Suijk tour guides and the bus or couch.

Three days in Prague the capital of Czech.
The Vlatva river crosses this city and it has numerous old and marvelous bridges.

In addition, the center is one open-air museum of almost a thousand years of architecture.

We may visit the Jewish Quarters in the Stare Mesto, the old town, the Karlsbridge and also Hradcany, the Castle district. City Center

Stay at Marriott downtown (picture right)

2008 - Day 3

Visit to the Ghetto museum

The astronimical clock

Day 2 in Prague
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
Visit Ledice village and site of Heydrich assassination

Group Lunch or/and group dinner


Lidice 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 revenge for the death of Heydrich, the governor appointed by Hitler.

Of the 503 people who once lived in Lidice, 340 perished. 143 women returned from Ravensbrook after the war; and after two years of searching, 17 of the children were recovered. To this day, some of the children of Lidice who were adopted and raised as Germans have no idea whom they really are.


Lidice memorial

Terezin memorial
2008 - Day 4
Day 3 in Prague
Guided tour of Jewish Quarters

Time for leisure.
visit town and Karlsbridge: 

On the left: the Don Giovanni Hotel is also on our list.



The Marriot hotel bedroom
2008 - Day 5


Wawel Royal Castle
Three days Krakow in Poland .
The place has been settled since the Stone Age at least. In 1038 Krakow became the capital of Poland and Polish monarchs took up their residence in its Wawel Royal Castle.

Stay at Krakow Radisson downtown
Hotel Radisson SAS
2008 - Day 6
Arbeit macht Frei - Auschwitz

Camp Birkenau:
Guided tour of Auschwitz

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.

Guided tour of Camp Birkenau 

Day 2 in Krakow

 
2008 - Day 7
 
also a good choice the Novotel
City tram tour of Krakow and to Schindler's Factory. 
On the factory grounds is a plaque:

  "The workplace over 1000 Jewish
    nationality persons during
    second world war saved their
     life by Oskar Schindler".

Day 3 in Krakow


Schindler's Factory
2008 - Day 8

Synagoge in Budapest

Budapest day 1
3 days in Budapest, Hungary

Owing to its important geographical location and role in history, the region is cultural heir both to the Roman Empire and to Christian and Modern Europe (in which the millennium-old Hungarian state is firmly rooted).

In return for territories re-annexed in the early stages of the war, Hungary supported the Germans, while being in contact with the Allies, as well.

Jewish Museum visit  



stay at the
   Hilton Hotel
2008 - Day 9

    Parliament of Budapest

day 2 in Budapest
Guided city tour of Budapest

Guided walk to Jewish section of Budapest.

Its most important attraction is the world-famous Buda Castle on the north side of the Danube (granted UNESCO World Heritage status in 1987).

Holocaust Memorial
2008 - Day 10
The Royal Buda Castle.


day 3 in Budapest
Leisure/ personal choice time

Hungarian speaker/Holocaust survivor

The Hilton hotel is located convenient for the city's most important sights as well as the business area. In the heart of the historic Castle District; part of the World Heritage designated by the UNESCO, next to the fairytale-like Fishermen's bastion, a fully renovated hotel is waiting for you.

caves of the Buda Castle
 
Jewish Cemetry
2008 - Day 11

Sacher Hotel in downtown Salzburg

3 days Salzburg Austria

this former bishop’s residence is one of the loveliest towns in Austria. Here we have a guided walk through town with many (better) coffee houses and music everywhere. Also an optional visit to a Marionette theater.
Camp Mauthausen 3-hour visit.

At March 1938 the "Anschluss" took place, Austria joined Germany. That same year the Mauthausen concentration camp was established close to the city of Linz, that was designated as the "Führer" town. 300 Inmates started the construction of the camp which reached completion around 1942. Most of the inmates were compelled to perform extreme hard labor in the quarry, which often led to their physical breakdown. May 5th 1945 Mauthausen was liberated by the U.S. army




Camp Mauthausen
2008 - Day 12
Visit Mondaee, location of "Sound of Music"

Guided city tour to sites commemorating the Nazi persecution

day 2 in Salzburg
 

Evening theater visit

2008 - Day 13

memorial
"Think about how we died here".
Camp Dachau with relevant video on the bus. 
Memorial by Nandor Gild and the Plaque memorial Grave of Thousands Unknown right of this.

Fill in your place of interest, a city or a memorial or maybe a historcial building or....
Europe has a rich history with many famous places to see.

We will take care of the route with enough time for rest or pleasure.

Last day and last night in one of the finest hotels of our tour.
Hotel Österreichischer Hof in the heart of Salzburg.

Plaque memorial
Grave of thousands unknown


2008 - Day 14
Flight home or maybe an extension of your stay in Europe. We are glad to help you planning this. 
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This page is just
an example to give you an idea of the possibilities and to be prepared on the more specific tours on the next pages.

 
AVERAGE RATE FOR OUR TOURS IS $2600.00 for appr 14 days.
 [excludes airfare to Europe]

includes:
.. airconditioned hotels with breakfast
.. lunch or dinner each day
.. 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 escourt (Johan or Jorine and Cor)
 

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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