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Where the shtetl once was. Following the traces of Jews in the homeland
of Isaac Bashevis Singer
Program
1st day: Arrival to Warsaw and bus transfer to Lublin.
afternoon: Check-in and start the city sightseeing. The visit
includes: the main market square with its lanes, the building of
Jeshivah Chachwej Lubeni (Rabbinic Academy) and the old Jewish
cemetery.
evening: Time for your self.
2nd day: Majdanek
morning: Visit to Majdanek concentration camp -
the second largest Nazi camp of this type in Europe after Auschwitz,
established in 1941. It is estimated that over 230 000 human lives
were lost in Majdanek, including about 100 000 Jews.
afternoon:
evening: Optional culture program.
3rd day: The whole day excursion through the shtetls.
morning: Start in Kazimierz Dolny – the Renaissance
medieval town at the right bank of the Vistula river. While visiting
you will
see: the market place, the synagogue reconstructed after the
Second World War and the Jewish cemetery.
afternoon: Lubartow – the small town with 25,000
inhabitants, which boasts the numerous palaces of the noblemen.
There
we find the partly preserved Jewish cemetery.
Leczna – the Big Synagogue with the preserved
renaissance interior and valuable polychromies (now the synagogue
contains
the museum), the Small Synagogue also called the House of
Prayer and the former Jewish houses in the market square.
evening: Night in Lublin.
4th day: Round through the shtetls
morning: Piaski – meeting with the local
historian and discussion about the coexistence of Jews and non-Jews
during the
interwar period.
afternoon: Bychawa – meeting with the school
manager and the organizer of the International Youth Meeting. A film
projection
about Poland in the 20th Century – Jews.
Visit to the Market Square including the synagogue. Conversation with
a survivor.
Izbica – Entering the partly former Jewish cemetery
where you find a tomb-monument of the Jewish-Catholic couple of
brothers
Griner and Pawlowski. Continuation to Zamosc.
evening: Arrival and night in Zamosc.
5th day: Zamosc – UNESCO World Heritage Town.
morning: City sightseeing tour of Zamosc which includes: the
Old Town Market, Zamojski Palace, the Town Hall, the synagogue
and the mikva, the house of Rosa Luxemburg.
afternoon: Departure Zamosc for the half-day theme-tour about
the Hasidism.
Belzec – visit to the extermination camp
Sieniawa – Jewish cemetery with Tzaddik’s tomb – Ohel
Lezajsk – ohel Elimelech – the famous miracle worker
Tzaddik, the Bernardines Monastery and the cathedral.
evening: Check-in in a hotel in Dabrowka.
Lecture about the aspect of Jews in Poland.
6th day: Lancut
morning: Arrival to Lancut. Visiting of the
four-pillared masonry synagogue in Lancut built around 1726 – one of
the most
beautiful and well preserved provincial synagogues. A stop at
the castle in Lancut - a magnificent aristocratic residence.
Originally this early Baroque palace was sited within fortifications
raised for Cracow Voivode Stanislaw Lubomirski in the years
1629-1641.
The residence also comprises a winter garden, stables, coach-house and
a small romantic castle in the park.
afternoon: Route to Tarnow. Check-in the hotel. Leisure time.
evening: A film projection Austeria.
7th day: Tarnow
morning: Visiting of the Main Market Square with centrally
located impressive Gothic -Renaissance town hall, Bimah of the Old
Synagogue, houses and palaces of the noblemen, the Jewish district and
cemetery and Sinti and Roma Museum.
afternoon: Return to Warsaw with a short tour of
Sandomierz. The town boasts the cathedral (1382), the house in
which the
medieval chronicler, Jan Dlugosz once lived (1478), a
Dominican Abbey (1226), the church of St. Paul (1434), a Baroque
Benedictine monastery and the Town Hall.
evening: Arrival to Warsaw.
8th day: Warsaw
morning: Visiting of the Jewish Ghetto site and
the cemetery at Okopowa Street – the most valuable
monument of Jewish
culture in Warsaw. Then the stop in Nozyk
Synagogue founded in 1902 by Zalman Nozyk and his wife.
Meeting with a
representative from the Jewish community. Discussion
about present situation of Jewish community in Poland.
afternoon: Free time.
evening: Performance in the Yiddish Theatre.
9th day: Departure
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