History – World War II, Holocaust and Cold War Outline Itinerary

Day 1

AM Flight from UK to Budapest

PM Guided walking tour of Budapest with a focus on: the experiences of ’s Jewish community through the Second World War; life in Cold War Budapest Visits include:  Hungarian Parliament Building  Memorial of the National Martyrs  Bust of Admiral Miklos Horthy  Memorial to the victims of the German invasion  Citizens' Holocaust Memorial  Stolpersteine  on the Bank  Statue of Ronald Regan  Soviet War Memorial  Scars of the 1956 Uprising

Evening Dinner in accommodation Day 2

AM Guided tour of Budapest’s Holocaust Memorial presenting the life and deportation of Jews, and the anti-Semitist legislation prior to the deportations PM Guided tour of the . Located in the former headquarters of the Communist Secret Service this exhibition focusses on the crimes of both the Fascist and Communist regimes. Evening Dinner in accommodation Day 3

AM Guided visit to the Grand Synagogue. The largest synagogue in Europe was bombed by the Hungarian pro-Nazi , damaged during air raids during the Nazi Occupation and the Siege of Budapest. PM Guided visit to the Rock Hospital. In a natural cellar system beneath the Castle Hill, this complex served as a military hospital during the siege of Budapest 1944-15. In the 1950s it was converted into a nuclear bunker Evening Dinner in accommodation Day 4

AM Guided visit to , an open-air museum dedicated to monumental statues and sculpted plaques from Hungary's Communist period.

PM Free time for last minute sightseeing and shopping Transfer to the airport for your flight back to the UK