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Grand Jewish Tour Lithuania Belarus Poland Different Lithuania Private travel & concierge Phone: +37065070055 Email: [email protected] Rodunios kelias 8, Vilnius www.differentlithuania.eu Grand Jewish tour Lithuania Belarus Poland Tour facts Discovering the rich Jewish cultural heritage in all three Duration: 12 days countries. We hope that the mysterious little shtetl towns Distance 1800km/1242mi 3 different countries and lovely countrysides will outbalance the sights 1 Border crossing connected with the Shoah. Different Lithuania Private travel & concierge Phone: +37065070055 Email: [email protected] Rodunios kelias 8, Vilnius www.differentlithuania.eu Romain Gary, famous Castle was built on the peninsula in Visit site of Slobodka yeshiva, graves of Jewish – French the 14th c. At that time Vytautas the R. Yitzchak Echanan Spector (d.1896) Great, Lithuanian Grand Duke ruled and. R. Avraham Dov Ber Kahana diplomat, novelist, fim the country. 600 years ago Vytautas Shapira (d. 1943) in Aleksot. Continue director, W W I I aviator brought 1000 families of Karaites to the Ninth Fort, where R. Elchanan from the south of Crimean Wasserman was martyred in 1941, Day 1 peninsula. One of the streets in together with other 70,000 Jews. Arrival to Vilnius. Private shuttle Trakai is named after the small Return to Vilnius. Overnight stay from the airport to hotel “Ramada” ethnic group Karaites. There are only Vilnius, “Ramada” 5* hotel. 5*. A short Jewish heritage tour a hundred of them left in Trakai afternoon in Vilnius. nowadays. The philosophy of their Day 4 Vilnius Day 2 Paneriai memorial - Trakai religion is very close to Judaism. After breakfast, visit to Shnipishok, site After breakfast, a visit to Paneriai Their language belongs to Turkic of the old Jewish Cemetery of Vilna. memorial. Paneriai is one of the language group. It is worth visiting Continue to the Zaretcha Jewish most dreadful sites of the mass the museum of Karaites. Cemetery (1830-1940) where R. Shmuel execution of Jews during the Second Return to Vilnius. Overnight stay in Strashun, Matityahu Strashun (d.1885), World War. Jews were brought here hotel “Ramada” 5* and R. Baruch Ber Leibowitz (d.1939) mostly from Vilnius Ghetto, but were buried. Continue to the present Jews from other towns of Lithuania Day 3 Vilnius - Kaunas cemetery where we will visit the graves and other countries were also killed Visit Kovno old Jewish quarter, Bet of the Vilna Gaon, R. Itzel Ponoviezer here. The forest entrance is marked Midrash, synagogue and the and. R. Cahim Ozer Grodzenski. Proceed by a memorial. Proceeding to Trakai. Japanese consulate in Kovno, where to the Karaite Kenesa of Vilna, then to Name of Trakai Castle reminds us Chiune Sugihara saved 8,000 Jewish the Romm Publishing Company – where the great times of Lithuanian Grand lives. the Vilna Shas was published. Overnight Dukes. A visit to medieval island Vilnius “Ramada” 5* hotel. castle is included in the tour. Different Lithuania Private travel & concierge Phone: +37065070055 Email: [email protected] Rodunios kelias 8, Vilnius www.differentlithuania.eu Day 5 Vilnius - Minsk On the way to Minsk, a stop in Volozhyn to see the renowned yeshiva established by Rav Hayim Volozhiner, a disciple of the Vilna Gaon in 1803 (it existed until 1942, when the Nazis killed the last sixty-four students). See the Jewish cemetery with the tomb of the great Hayim Volozhiner. Arrival to Minsk. General sightseeing of Minsk. “Yama” – a memorial for the Jews that perished in Minsk during the Nazi occupation. The obelisk was built on the exact spot where five thousand Jews Be the first to experience the forest were slaughtered. Visit Minsk of Naliboki, where Jewish partisan Synagogue. A walk in the small part of brother heroes Bielski hid and led the Old Town the only remains of the pre-war Minsk. The site of the Minsk one of the biggest Jew prisoner ghetto. Examples of Jewish architecture, rescue in history. including a building with an ornate Be the first to experience the forest of Day 8 Bialystok-Tykocin-Treblinka- wooden door that still has the imprint Naliboki, where Jewish partisan brother Warsaw of a large mezuzah. Overnight stay at heroes Bielski hid and led one of the We will see a Branicki Palace – a Crown Plaza 5* hotel. biggest Jew war prisoner rescue in former residence of Branicki family Day 6 Minsk-Mir-Novogrudok-Naliboki- history. Later in the evening, we will who owned most of Bialystok in 18th Grodno arrive to Grodno, where you can rest century. We will also visit Main Market After breakfast enjoy a lovely drive to and relax at 4* Kronon Park Hotel. with town hall,Orthodox Church of St Mir. Here, visit a world-renowned Day 7 Grodno - Bialystok Nicholas from 19th century, Jewish yeshiva, established in 1815, that After breakfast sightseeing of Grodno, Cemetery, Church of St Roch and housed over five hundred students from once a residence of Great Duke of Gothic Cathedral of Virgin Mary with around the world during its golden age. Lithuania Vytautas. Here in 1389 he monuments of Pope John Paul II and Explore three marvelous synagogues in issued a "Permit of Residence" that Father Jerzy Popieluszko in front of it. yeshiva quarter. Continue through an regarded the arrival of Jews into A trip to a small but very interesting old Jewish cemetery, where an Lithuania with favor. Walking tour in the town, only 40 km from Bialystok. We impressive memorial is erected in old part of Grodno, including the will see the Market Square with memory of the Jewish inhabitants medieval castle, the brilliant example of Baroque monument for Stefan murdered during WWII. Follow with the Baroque architecture - the Roman- Czarnecki – Hetman of Poland during visit to the medieval castle of Duke Catholic Cathedral, the streets of the war with Sweden, parish church from Radziwili, built in 1495. Journey with us Jewish quarter before the war, buildings 18th century and finally the Baroque to the town of Nowogrodek, where of the various Jewish public institutions, Synagogue which dates from 1642. Great Duke Vytautas built a spectacular the Great Synagogue of Grodno, the Synagogue reminds about times when castle in the days of his rule, ruins of territory of the Jewish Ghetto, the old Jewish population living in this region which can be seen to this day. Along Jewish cemetery. Departure for was very big. Walls of Synagogue are with the visit to the Museum of Adam Bialystok. Border crossing. Arrival to inscribed with religious quotations in Mitskevich, this tour will take you to the Bialystok. Accommodation in Branicki Hebrew and Aramaic. Evening arrival Jewish ghetto area where mass murders palace 4* hotel. to Warsaw accommodation at 5* took place. Bristol hotel. Different Lithuania Private travel & concierge Phone: +37065070055 Email: [email protected] Rodunios kelias 8, Vilnius www.differentlithuania.eu Day 9 Warsaw After breakfast, enjoy a tour of Warsaw. It will include the very best of the city: the charming Old Town painstakingly rebuilt from scratch after WW II, the area of the former Jewish Ghetto, the busy downtown, and the elegant Royal Route including Łazienki Royal Gardens and the Palace on the Water. Free time in the evening to visit a Chopin concert or to walk in a medieval part of the old town. Accommodations at Bristol 5* hotel. Day 10 Warsaw-Krakow After breakfast departure to Krakow. A Krakow tour will follow after a hotel check-inn and little rest. We will explore the streets of Kazimierz, stopping at synagogues, market squares and beautiful old graveyards, (the magical Remuh cemetery is the best-surviving Renaissance Jewish graveyard in Europe). It is likely that there will be Day 11 Auschwitz & Wieliczka salt interesting one of the kind mine exhibitions on in the district, and we After breakfast departure from can watch the best of the shows Krakow to Auschwitz. Within eight that are being held. We will cross hours you will be able to visit the the river and explore Podgorze (a largest Nazi death camp: Auschwitz short walk from Kazimierz). This (both Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II – area, once a prosperous mercantile Birkenau) and one of the greatest district, became Krakow's Jewish highlights in Poland – the Wieliczka ghetto during the war. Fragments of Salt Mines. One place extremely the old wall still survive as a chilling beautiful and the other grim and awe- reminder of a past that is really not inspiring. It will be a day of strong that long ago at all. Whilst a few emotions. Be ready for a great Day 12 Krakow-Warsaw-Departure Jews managed to escape from the experience. After visiting Auschwitz, After breakfast private shuttle to Krakow ghetto (Roman Polanski is a well you will travel to the Wieliczka Salt airport. Departure. known example) most were Mines, a fascinating monument of transported from here to the death engineering which dates back to the camps. And finally we’ll see the 13th century. The subterranean exhibition established in the former universe comprises over 300 km of Oscar Schindler’s Factory. Overnight galleries hewn into the rock and salt at the Grand 5* hotel. deposits. Return to Krakow, overnight Grand hotel 5*. Different Lithuania Private travel & concierge Phone: +37065070055 Email: [email protected] Rodunios kelias 8, Vilnius www.differentlithuania.eu Hotels Selection Visa to Belarus Shabbat services 4nights in Vilnius Ramada Belarus is a country where you According to Shabbat we will 5* hotel. Standard room or need to have a tourist visa. There choose a synagogue for the similar. are 2 options how to get a visa. services. You can contact visa support 1night in Minsk Crown Plaza 5* agency in the states and do all the Special requirements hotel.
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