88 V i s i t www.theculturalexperience.com C a l l 0345 475 1815 NEPAL! XXX Second World War THE HOLOCAUST POLAND & THE NA I DEATH CAMPS 4 – 10 April 2019 4 – 10 April 2019 4 – 10 April 2019 4 – 10 April 2019 with Dr Isabel Wollaston with Dr Isabel Wollaston with Dr Isabel Wollaston with Dr Isabel Wollaston with Dr Isabel Wollaston with Dr Isabel Wollaston with Dr Isabel Wollaston with Dr Isabel Wollaston with Dr Isabel Wollaston 4 – 10 September 2019 4 – 10 September 2019 4 – 10 September 2019 4 – 10 September 2019 with Prof Tim Cole with Prof Tim Cole with Prof Tim Cole 16 – 22 October 2019 with Dr Waitmann Beorn 7 days Activity Level 2 ESSENTIALS Return flights from London, 4 star hotels, buffet breakfast, 3-course dinner with drinks each evening, all entrance fees and expert guide throughout. Tour price: £2225 Single supplement: £295 Deposit: £200 Price without flights: £2100 In this seven-day tour to Poland we visit the sites of the former ghettos in Warsaw, Lublin and Krakow alongside four of the concentration and death camps – Treblinka, Majdanek, Belzec and Auschwitz-Birkenau - that played such a significant role in this genocide. We look at the struggle of both the Jews and the Poles against their oppressors, visiting the scenes of the Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. You will see the shift from complete physical destruction of ghetto and camp to the actual remnants due to the rapid advance of the Soviets. However, the tour is not limited to the serious and emotive history of the Holocaust, with its clear message for future generations, we also enjoy expert guided tours of the historic cities of Warsaw and Krakow. We sample much of the local culture and visit the world famous salt mine at Wieliczka. Each evening we will dine in a different local restaurant to fferent local restaurant to ff enjoy a wealth of diverse local cuisine. “All in all an incredibly enriching and moving experience” Some six million Poles died during the Second World War, half of whom were Jews murdered in the forests in the east of the country or the death camps set up after the German occupation of their country. By far the largest of these was Auschwitz-Birkenau which was the site of over one million deaths, mainly Jews brought here from all over Europe. The smaller, purpose built 'killing' camp of Treblinka where Warsaw’s Jews were taken, was said by its commandant SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Franz Stangl to be able to murder over 1,000 people per hour at its peak. With the positioning of the Majdanek camp on the outskirts of Lublin, the Germans made no effort to disguise the killings, its gas chambers and crematorium being plainly visible to passers-by. The overarching narrative of the tour is about the shift from Polish Jews to European Jews and the evolution of policy from concentration camps to death camps. Day 1 - Fly London to Warsaw. Check in to our hotel for two nights. Introductory talk. Day 2 - Warsaw. Guided tour around Warsaw including the Warsaw Rising monument, '44 Rising Museum, Nozyk Synagogue, and the Jewish Cemetery. We walk the 'memorial route to the struggle & martyrdom of the Jews' in the site of the former ghetto.