Beth Am’s Journey to Germany & Poland $5,469 per person in double occupancy +$1,199 single occupancy supplement

Package includes:

• Round-trip bus from Beth Am to JFK Airport • Round-trip flights on Air Berlin • Westin Hotel, Berlin; Radisson Hotel, Warsaw; Vanilla Hotel, Lublin (or similar); Holiday Inn, Krakow. • Private sightseeing with outstanding educator/guide on a program specially designed and led by Dr. Michael Sanow and Rabbi Kelley Gludt • Meet with leaders of the various Jewish communities and attend the Klezmer Music Festival. • Breakfast daily, welcome dinner in Berlin, Shabbat dinner in Berlin, Shabbat dinner in Warsaw and Farewell Dinner • Tips to driver, guide, and porters

Sites include:

• Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe • Berlin’s Jewish Museum • The Wansee Villa • Ravensbruck • Polin (Museum of the History of the Polish Jews) • The Warsaw Ghetto • Majdanek Death Camp, Auschwitz • Jewish Krakow

For more information, please contact:

Dr. Michael Sanow [email protected]

Exploring Jewish History, the Holocaust & Jewish Life Today led by Dr. Michael Sanow & Rabbi Kelley Gludt June 13 – 27, 2017 Tuesday, June 13 walk through the Okapova Street Jewish cemetery, you Depart by bus from Beth Am to New York’s John F. Kennedy Saturday, June 17 will get great insight into the history of Warsaw’s Jews and Airport. Check in and depart on Air Berlin on your non-stop Shabbat. The bus will take us to services at The Masorti be left with the question as to why this cemetery survived flight to Berlin. Congregation and back to the hotel following the Kiddush. the Nazis. Learn the amazing story of Janusz Korczak and The afternoon is free to explore Berlin. Overnight, Berlin. the orphanage that he ran beginning in 1912. Meet with Wednesday, June 14 members of Baltimore’s sister congregation and the Lauder Arrive in Berlin in the morning. You will be met and assisted Sunday, June 18 School. by an Abrams Travel representative. Drive north from Berlin to the shores of Lake Schwedt to Overnight, Warsaw. After the short drive from the airport to the city center, visit Ravensbruck, a concentration camp that imprisoned you will begin your exploration of Berlin’s rich history. Visit primarily women. Return to the Berlin area and the neigh- Thursday, June 22 Alexander Platz, the city center of former Socialist East borhood of Weissensee, where you visit the second largest See the amazing archives of Warsaw’s Jews at the Jewish Berlin. Then walk along Unter den Linden Strasse, the Jewish cemetery in Europe. The cemetery was dedicated Historical Institute. Then drive from Warsaw to the Majdanik grand central boulevard in the Mitte district. Nearby, you in 1880 and is known not only as the burial place of many death camp. Unlike other camps that were often placed in will see Brandenburg Gate. This tax gate, a symbol of the famous Berlin Jews, but also for its memorial to the Jews of remote locations, Majdanik is located just on the outskirts Cold War, was part of the tax wall that surrounded the city. the Holocaust and those who lost their lives during World of Lublin. Majdanik was found intact as the Nazis didn’t See the Reichstag, German Parliament, with its large glass War I. destroy it due to the rapid advance of the Soviet Red Army. and steel cupola. Also visit the Peter Eisenman designed Overnight, Berlin. Overnight, Lublin. Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. You will also visit the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Book Burning Monday, June 19 Friday, June 23 Memorial at Bebel Square. Depart Berlin and drive across the border into Poland and Depart Lublin and drive to Krakow. Visit the Jewish sites of Enjoy a welcome dinner. the city of Lodz. In January and February 1940, the Ger- Krakow in an area known as Kazimierz. You will visit the Overnight, Berlin. mans ordered the separation of the Jewish population of Rema Synagogue, where Moses Isserles wrote commentar- Thursday, June 15 Lodz. The Jews, who were about a third of the city’s res- ies on Jewish law that became part of the Shulhan Arukh. Enjoy a full day tour of Jewish Berlin. Tour the Jewish Mu- idents, were forced into the first enclosed ghetto in Po- The cemetery of the Izaac Synagogue also tells the story of seum which is focused on the lives of German Jews and land. Continue our drive through the Polish countryside to the Jewish community of Krakow. Also visit the Schindler their contributions to society prior to the Holocaust. Later, Warsaw. Factory Museum and the Chair Memorial. Shabbat dinner walk along Grosse Hamburger Strasse, once the center of Overnight, Warsaw. at the Jewish Community Center. Overnight, Krakow. Berlin Jewry. Visit the Museum of Otto Weidt’s Workshop Tuesday, June 20 Saturday, June 24 for the Blind, a haven for Jews during the Holocaust years in Berlin, and also the Hackescher Market. In the former East Today’s museum visit to Polin, the Museum of the History Shabbat services. Enjoy an afternoon at leisure to relax or Berlin, you will also visit the Jewish Boys School and the of the Polish Jews, traces Jewish life in Poland beginning walk through Krakow. In the evening, attend the Klezmer Jewish Cemetery with the grave of Moses Mendelsson, the in the Middle Ages. The museum stands in the middle of Music Festival. Overnight, Krakow. father of the Haskalah. See the memorial at the site of the what was once the center of Jewish Warsaw. Jews arrived Sunday, June 25 Women’s Protest on Rosenen strasse and the synagogue in the area as traveling merchants and later settled and on Oranienburger strasse. prospered. Visit the “Footbridge of Memory.” Designed by Drive about 45 minutes to the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex. Overnight, Berlin. Tomasz Tusch-Lec and installed in September 2011, this The Nazis killed more than 1.1 million people from 1942- memorial of the footbridge connecting the large and small 1944 at this series of camps, and approximately one of ev- Friday, June 16 ghettoes, also has viewing windows inside the poles where ery six Jews murdered by the Nazis was killed here. Return Drive to the outskirts of Berlin to Grunewald train station visitors can flip through images of life in the Warsaw Ghetto. to Krakow for overnight. to see the memorial at Track 17, the location from which Also see the Ghetto Heroes Monument. Berlin’s Jews were sent to their death. Continue to Wannsee If the renovation has been completed, we will view an Monday, June 26 to visit the place where the Nazi leadership formalized the exhibit entitled, “I Can Still See Their Faces.” This project In the morning, you will complete your visit to the Jewish plans for The Final Solution. On our way back to Berlin, see is a collection of 9,000 photographs of Jews who were sites of Krakow and the Kazimierz. In the afternoon, we will the Glienicke Bridge, the focus of Steven Spielberg’s “The murdered, including large photos mounted on the outside meet with a Jewish History professor at Jagellonian Uni- Bridge of Spies.” Once back in the city, visit the Rathaus of tenements restored from that period. versity. You will share a farewell dinner and reflect on your Schöneberg. This is the place where President Kennedy Overnight, Warsaw. shared experiences. gave his famous speech with the phrase, “Ich bin ein Berlin- Overnight, Krakow. er.” Then walk along the “Places of Remembrance.” There Wednesday, June 21 are eighty signs hung on lamp posts throughout the Bavar- You will start today’s tour in Warsaw’s Old City. Visit the Tuesday, June 27 ian Quarter, each one spelling out one of the hundreds of Warsaw Ghetto including the Umshlag-platz, the place from After breakfast, we will transfer to the airport for our return Nazi laws and rules that gradually dehumanized Berlin’s which 300,000 Jews were deported to Treblinka, during flight to JFK on Air Berlin via Warsaw. Return by bus to Beth Jewish population. Shabbat dinner. the summer of 1942. Tour the Nozyk Synagogue, the only Am. Overnight, Berlin. synagogue in Warsaw to survive the Holocaust. When you