Understanding The Holocaust, Auschwitz, Kraków & Schindler’S Factory By Air
PLEASE NOTE: Price is per person and based on two people sharing a twin/double room. Single room supplements and upgrades are not included.
Itinerary
2024 Itinerary
Day 1
Fly to Kraków and transfer to our hotel in Kraków for four nights.
Day 2 - Kraków
We start our tour in Kraków having an in-depth look at the Kraków Ghetto seeing the ‘Chairs’ Memorial and the buildings where Jewish families lived. After lunch you will visit the Oskar Schindler Factory; immortalised in the film Schindler’s List, Oskar worked tirelessly to save as many of the city’s Jews as he could. The factory site is now a museum which helps explain the war in Poland as well as the Holocaust.
Meals - Breakfast
Day 3 - Auschwitz
Today we travel to Auschwitz, the most notorious and deadly of the Concentration Camps in German occupied Poland. We spend time in Auschwitz where the workers were detained, seeing the many museum items and exhibitions. We then walk to the massive Auschwitz-Birkenau site, where the huge scale and human cost of the Holocaust is apparent. A moving day studying one of the most iconic locations connected to the Holocaust.
Meals - Breakfast
Day 4 - Plaszów Concentration Camp, Kraków War Cemetery
We start at the War Cemetery in Kraków where there is a large British plot, plus graves from the German Army, Polish Forces and Soviet Forces. We then visit the site of Plaszów Concentration Camp, the closest camp to Kraków. In the afternoon you have free time to explore central Kraków.
Meals - Breakfast
Day 5
Return transfer to Kraków airport for your return flight to the UK.
Meals - Breakfast
Accommodation
You will stay for four nights at the 3-star Ibis Krakow Centrum or the Vienna House Easy By Wyndham in Kraków.