JRoots Poland Trip - Wednesday, May 6 - Sunday, May 10, 2015
Join the JICNY and CYJP and Young Jewish Professionals for the most meaningful trip of a lifetime.
JRoots offers an all inclusive journey through our heritage, looking at the past, the present and the future.
Price Includes:
- 4 nights/ 5 days accommodation in 4-STAR hotels (based on twin occupancy)
- Single Room Supplement (add an extra $230 to the cost)
- Luxury coach with air-conditioning
- Food (4* catering) includes Kosher breakfasts, lunches, and hot dinners. Shabbat meals inlcuded.
- Entrance fees to all sites
- Staff: English speaking JRoots Educator AND English speaking Polish pilot
- Tips for driver, Polish pilot, meals
- JRoots Guidebook for each participant
Price does NOT include:
- Airfare
- Tips for JRoots Educator
- Personal extras
- Medical / Travel insurance
COSTS
$1250 if paid by November 1, 2014
$1350 if paid by December 1, 2014
$1550 paid by in full by February 1, 2014
REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 1st, 2015. Space is limited. A $300 deposit, refundable until December 31, 2014, is required to hold your place.
JROOTS - POLAND ITINERARY
Tuesday May 5
Depart USA
Wednesday May 6
Morning arrival in Warsaw Airport
Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery
Visit the life of the Jewish people pre-war through the Jewish Cemetery of Warsaw. The cemetery allows us to understand the richness and diversity of life pre-war.
Warsaw
A walking tour of Warsaw will include the former ghetto, the Umschlagplatz monument, Ghetto Uprising monument and Miła 18, the ŻOB (Jewish Combat Organization) memorial site.
Treblinka
The site of the infamous Nazi death camp in which over 800,000 Jews were murdered.
Overnight: Warsaw – Radisson Sobieski Hotel
Thursday May 7
Lublin
Before the war, Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin was the most important Yeshiva in Poland, if not the world. It was led by the dynamic Rabbi and member of the Polish Parliament – Rabbi Meir Shapiro.
Majdanek
The Majdanek concentration camp was located three kilometres from the centre of Lublin and was in operation from October 1941 until July 1945. Between 95,000 and 130,000 died or were killed in the Majdanek system; between 80,000 and 92,000 of whom were Jews.
Leżajsk
The grave of Elimelech of Leżajsk attracts pilgrims from around the world making the surviving cemetery one of the largest sites of Jewish pilgrimage in Poland and still an important Chassidic center.
Łańcut
The former synagogue from 1761 has been stunningly restored with wall decorations from 18th and 19th centuries.
Overnight: Tarnow
Friday, May 8
Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau
The largest of Nazi Germany's concentration camps and extermination camps operational during World War II, the camp took its German name from the name of the Polish town of Oświęcim in which it is located. Most victims were killed in Auschwitz II's gas chambers using Zyklon B; other deaths were caused by systematic starvation, forced labour, lack of disease control, individual executions and purported "medical experiments".
Shabbat in Kraków
Candle lighting to begin Shabbat
Kabbalat Shabbat
Shabbat Dinner
Oneg Shabbat
Overnight: Kraków – Park Inn Hotel
Shabbat, May 9
Optional Shabbat Service
Kiddush
Kazimierz Part 1
The former Jewish quarter in Kraków comprises the most intact and significant collection of Jewish buildings in Central Europe today, including seven remaining synagogues.
Shabbat Lunch
Testimony from one of the Righteous Among the Nations
Havdallah and Shabbat ends
Kraków Ghetto and Schindler's Factory
Over the bridge from Kazimierz is the former WWII ghetto situated in the Podgórze area of the city where traces of the ghetto wall can still be found as well as Schindler's 'Emalia' enamel factory.
Overnight: Kraków – Park Inn Hotel
Sunday, May 10
Kazimierz Part 2
The former Jewish quarter in Kraków comprises the most intact and significant collection of Jewish buildings in Central Europe today, including seven remaining synagogues.
Wolbrom
The town of Wolbrom in Poland was a complete world, flourishing with creativity and culture, religion and tradition, social life and politics. During a twenty-four hour period in September 1942, this small, yet thriving Jewish community was destroyed.
Drive to Krakow Airport
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Poland
Full payment (double-occupancy) | $ 1,250.00 |
Full payment (Single-room supplement) | $ 1,500.00 |
Deposit only | $ 300.00 |
Deposit | $ 300.00 |
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