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Tour informational meeting June 25 at 7:30 PM Kehillat Ma'arav's Central & European Jewish Heritage Journey Led by Rabbi Michael Gotlieb October 27-November 7, 2019 View and download itinerary and application at www.israeltour.com/rgotlieb Traveling through Poland gives us an opportunity to visit historic sites of culture, to engage in meetings with members of the Jewish Community, and of course to explore and experience the remnants of the camps, ghettos and the painful reality of the Shoah. The cobblestoned Old Cities of Warsaw and ancient castles of Krakow offer a stark comparison to the unthinkable tragedy of the Holocaust. Prague's history of the Jews is one of Central Europe's oldest and most well- known. Prague boasts one of the oldest recorded kehilot in Europe. Then we learn about Berlin’s modern-day Jewish community in a bustling kosher café, and hear stories about the city’s earliest Jewish citizens as you visit the site of the demolished 18th-century Old Synagogue and the elegant 19th-century New Synagogue, an architectural landmark. Tour Pricing Discounted Price for Check Payment Full Price for Credit Card Payment Land Only Package – $4995 Land Only Package – $5195 per person in a double room per person in a double room Land and Air Package – *$6465 Land and Air Package – *$6725 per person in a double room per person in a double room Single Room Supplement – $1155 Single Room Supplement – $1199 *Round trip LAX–Krakow–Berlin–LAX including internal European flight; Krakow–Prague Round trip air available through ITC Tours call Yafa at 800-247-7235 Added to the costs above are tips for Guide, Driver, Restaurants, and Porterage – $180 For additional information please contact Rabbi Michael Gotlieb at [email protected] or (310) 829-0566 Discover the world with Israel Tour Connection www.itctours.com Kehillat Ma'arav's Central & European Jewish Heritage Tour Led by Rabbi Michael Gotlieb Sunday, October 27, 2019 • Packed lunch as a divided city during the Cold War • Depart from LAX, overnight flight • Guided tour (local museum guide) of • Tour of historic Neues Synagogue Auschwitz I (Oranienburger Strasse) and its museum Monday,October 28, 2019 – Warsaw (L,D) • Time permitting: Visit to Oswiecin Jewish • Meeting with Rabbi Gesa Ederberg, the (today’s program depends on arrival time) Center Masorti/Conservative rabbi of Berlin to hear • Arrive in Warsaw to be met and assisted by • Transfer to Krakow Airport for flight to about renewal of Jewish life in Germany your ITC representative Prague • Visit Otto Weidt's Worshop for the Blind, • Tour of the Opakowa Jewish Cemetery – • Check in to hotel in central Prague a brush factory which helped rescue blind One of the largest Jewish cemeteries in • Kosher dinner at local kosher restaurant and deaf Jews during the Holocaust Europe. If only these stones could speak: • Overnight: Grandium Hotel, Prague • Dinner at local Kosher restaurant The cemetery is a reflection of Jewish • Overnight: NH Collection Hotel, Berlin Warsaw over the 150 years prior to its Friday, November 1, 2019 destruction. Jewish Prague (B,D) Tuesday, November 5, 2019 • Packed lunch to be provided by JCC • Walking tour of Jewish Prague – The Josefov Potsdam and Wansee Villa (B,L) Warszawa neighborhood, including Jewish Town hall, • Travel to Potsdam • Visit the the place from Umshlagplatz, • Cross the where Jews were deported from the Altneuschul (Old-New Synagogue), Maisel, "Bridge of Spies" • Guided tour of , Frederick the Warsaw Ghetto. Then follow the Path Pinkas, Klausen and Spanish Synagogues Sanssouci Great's summer palace in –Hear of Heroism on Mila St. to the Mila 18 and Jewish Museum Potsdam about how Moses Mendelsohn was Memorial and Warsaw Ghetto Memorial, • Lunch on own latter designed by the late sculpturer • Tour of Prague castle 'received' as a visitor Nathan Rappaport. • Free time to relax and prepare for Shabbat • Continue sightseeing tour of Potsdam • Visit Polin – The Museum of the History · Shabbat/Friday night services with Rabbi • Lunch at lakeside Restaurant Seehaase on of Polish Jews Ron Hoffberg, Conservative/Masorti Rabbi of the Wansee • Check in to the Polonia Palace in Warsaw Prague • Tour of Wansee Conference House, • Dinner at Galil Restaurant · Festive Shabbat Dinner - Dinitz focusing on 'Conference Room' (room 9) and • Overnight: Polonia Palace, Warsaw • Overnight: Grandium Hotel, Prague the Presence of the Past Exhibit (room 15) • Return to Berlin Saturday, November 2, 2019 • Free evening Tuesday, October 29, 2019 And on the Seventh Day….in Prague (B,L) • Dinner on own Warsaw, Tyckocyn, Treblinka (B,L,D) · Shabbat morning services at historic • Overnight: NH Collection Hotel, Berlin • Visit the Nozik Synagogue, a last vestige of Altneushul the Warsaw Jewry before the Shoah · Traditional Shabbat Lunch - King David • Hear about the remarkable humanitarian • Hotel. Walking tour of Old Town of Prague, Wednesday, November 6, 2019 and educator Janusc Korchak at the including Charles Bridge, Old Town Square Pergamon, Re-United Berlin and Holocaust orphanage he directed and see one of the and Astronomical Clock Memorial (B,L,D) few still standing sections of the Ghetto · Havdalah with Rabbi Gotlieb • Visit the Pergamon Museum to see wall nearby • Dinner on own the Ishtar Gate, the entrance to • Packed lunch • 'Black Theater' – Laterna Magica Nebuchadnetzer's city of Babylon to • Travel to Tickocyn to visit the last historic performance hear about its special place in Jewish painted wooden synagogue in Poland –the • Overnight: Grandium Hotel, Prague history. Then tour other exhibits on own. world that was • Visit the Neues Museum to see the world • Visit the site of mass grave in the Sunday, November 3, 2019 renowned Nefrettiti Bust Lupochova Forest Terezin and Berlin (B,L,D) • Lunch at Kafer Restaurant at Reichstag • Treblinka Death Camp • Tour of Terezin Ghetto and Concentration (vegetarian/fish) • Return to Warsaw Camp • View Brandenburg Gate and see Berlin • Dinner at Warsaw JCC • Travel to Dresden Wall Memorial • Overnight: Polonia Palace, Warsaw • Lunch and tour at Meissen Porcelain • Tour of Reichstag, including elevator to Factory in Dresden iconic glass dome Wednesday, October 30, 2019 • Travel to Berlin • Visit the Memorial to the Murdered Krakow: A Cradle of Jewish Life (B,L,D) •Check in to the NH Collection Hotel, in Berlin Jews of Europe – Berlin's Holocaust • Early departure by first class train from • Kosher dinner at Bleibergs on the Memorial designed by architect Peter Warsaw to Krakow Kurfursdendam ('Kudam') Eisenmann • Tour of the Kazmierez, Krakow's Old • Overnight: NH Collection Hotel, Berlin • Dinner at Bobbe Berlin Restaurant Jewish Quarter including the Rama • Overnight: NH Collection Hotel, Berlin Synagogue, Old Synagogue, and Temple Synagogue Monday, November 4, 2019 Thursday, November 7, 2019 • Visit Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory and Berlin: Jewish History and the Cold War Departure (B) the Pharmacy in Krakow's former Ghetto (B,L,D) • Transfer to airport for flight to U.S. • Check in to Holiday Inn City Center Krakow • Guided tour of the Jewish Museum Berlin • Kosher dinner at Krakow JCC for an overview of German Jewish history • Overnight: Holiday Inn City Center, Krakow and an opportunity to appreciate its unique architecture Thursday, October 31, 2019 • Lunch at Café Schmuss in the Berlin Jewish Auschwitz-Birkenau (B,L,D) Museum • In-depth tour of Birkenau-Auschwitz II • Visit Check Point Charlie and the adjacent Death Camp Berlin Wall Museum to learn about Berlin.