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Participants leave USA for Amsterdam

Inntel Amsterdam

Welcome at Amsterdam airport a.m. Visit Corry ten Boom House, Haarlem. This is a known hiding place, similar to the Anne Frank House. Meeting with friend Anne Frank and group lunch p.m. Check-in mid-town Inntel Hotel; leisure time evening visit Anne Frank House

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.

hotel Steigenberger At the end of this day check-in Esprix hotel Celle, group dinner

In the morning 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

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

a.m. A visit to the Wannsee Villa where the extermination of all Jews was decided. The "Final Solution" . It was also the place where in 1936 the Summer Olympic shootings took place. group lunch on our way to Berlin p.m. Check-in mid-town hotel "Hamburg", Berlin Guided Berlin city tour, visit Jewish Museum and/or the Wall Museum.

hotel Hamburg

Jewish museum

p.m. Visit Buchenwald camp, Weimar. Buchenwald was the somewhat romantic (beech forest) name for the camp near Ettersberg (the mountain). From 1937 till 1945, some 250,000 people were incarcerated in Buchenwald by the Nazi regime and 56,000 died here. group lunch Check-in mid-town hotel Holiday Inn Dresden city walk and museum visit.

Holiday Inn DRESDEN

Treblinka: The train station

Krakow,Poland lunch en route p.m. Arrive Radisson hotel visit 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.

Hotel Radisson SAS

Auschwitz entrance

Guided day in Auschwitz-Birkenau 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. group lunch

Hotel Radisson SAS

Prague, Czech Republic 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 This day is for a visit to what is left of that former Jewish Quarter above the town on a hill. And the old Jewish Cemetery and Old New Synagogue group lunch en route p.m. Check-in Dorint hotel Don Giovanni, Prague

Hotel  Don Giovani

The Clock tower Square

Castle visit city walk along a choice of fabulous places : 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) Prague Castle is the largest castle in the world with its St. Vitus Cathedral group lunch & leisure

Karlsbridge.

Visit to the Ghetto museum

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

Salzburg day of rest City walk or visit to the palace can be arranged. group dinner & meeting

Sacher hotel

HILTON hotel Nuremberg .

a.m. Visit Dachau concentration camp, Munich group lunch with author Melissa Mueller p.m. Stop at Nuremberg Court Building Check-in Nuremberg Hilton hotel

Dachau memorial

a.m. Visit ex Nazi Headquarters & Rallye grounds p.m. To Amsterdam Airport hotel farewell dinner

Nuernberg Main Headquarter The Hauhaus on the Marienplatz:

Participants leave for USA

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