89 U S A ( To l l - f r e e ) 1- 877- 381- 2 9 14 E m a i l inf o@the culturalexperience.com Second World War Day 3 - T reblinka & Lublin. Visit the death camp of Treblinka before driving to Lublin, with its castle/prison which served as a Nazi processing centre. Check in to our hotel for one night. Day 4 - B elzec & M ajdanek. Visit the concentration camp of Majdanek, where the barracks, guard towers, the only remaining gas chamber that is completely intact and long lines of (formerly) electrified double barbed wire remain just as they were over seventy years ago. Thence to Belzec, the precise location of which was not identified until the 1990s. Check in to our hotel in Zamosc for one night. Day 5 - K rakow. This morning we drive to Krakow – a UNESCO World Heritage Site – where we take a change of pace and emphasis with a guided tour of the Old Town with its wonderful architecture and busy street life. Check in to our hotel for three nights. Day 6 - A uschwitz and Birkenau. We travel out to the concentration and death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. To enter the camp of Auschwitz, one passes under the infamous inscription 'Arbeit Macht Frei' mounted upon its main gate, before visiting the exhibitions in the surviving prison blocks. In the afternoon we visit Birkenau, also known as Auschwitz II, the purpose-built camp that had hundreds of barracks and 4 massive gas chambers and functioned as the epicentre of the Holocaust during 1943 and 1944. Day7 - KrakowandKazimierz.Before World War Two, some 70,000 Jews lived in Krakow, mostlyinthesuburbofKazimierz.Weexplore this tiny area including the Old Synagogue Museum and there will be an opportunity for an optional unaccompanied visit to Oscar Schindler’s Factory. This afternoon we visit the awesome 700 year old salt mine at Wieliczka, its labyrinth of 300km of tunnels revealing chapels, underground lakes and a museum. After an early dinner, we take a late night flight from Krakow to London. Auschwitz Prof TIm Cole with group at Auschwitz