DAY 1, Tuesday - Depart the USA
Depart USA for Estonia. Your flight includes meals, drinks, and in-flight entertainment for your journey

DAY 2, Wednesday - Arrive in Tallinn
Arrive in Tallinn and transfer to your hotel. Balance of the day at leisure
Overnight: Tallinn
Meals: Dinner

DAY 3, Thursday - Day at Leisure
Full day at leisure to explore Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, situated on the southern coast of the Finnish Bay. Tallinn is filled with typical narrow medieval streets, towers and Gothic churches. This evening, enjoy a welcome dinner and orientation
Overnight: Tallinn
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

DAY 4, Friday - Tallinn City Tour
Morning tour of Tallinn, starting with a bus drive along the park of Kadriorg (founded by Peter the Great), the Song Festival grounds, and the ruins of the 15th-century Brigit's convent in Pirita. Then, continue on a walking tour of the old town, including the Toompea Castle, the 14th-century Gothic Town Hall, and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. In the afternoon drive to Riga, capital of the Latvian Republic, situated at the mouth of the Dougava River
Overnight: Riga
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

DAY 5, Saturday - Riga City Tour
This morning, a tour of Riga features the city's architecture encompassing Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Classic facades. View Riga Castle, St. Jacob's Cathedral and the Liberty Monument. Afternoon at leisure
Overnight: Riga
Meals: Breakfast

DAY 6, Sunday - Scenic Drive to Vilnius
Depart Riga for Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, enjoying the scenic countryside along the way
Overnight: Vilnius
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

DAY 7, Monday - Vilnius City Tour
A morning tour of Vilnius includes St. Peter and Paul Church and St. Anna's Church. View Vilnius University, Gediminas Tower and Vilnius Castle in the Upper Town. Afternoon at leisure
Overnight: Vilnius
Meals: Breakfast

Day 8 Tuesday - Warsaw
Afternoon arrivals in Warsaw Meet with your guide/host Transfer to hotel.

Enjoy a walk in the Old Town Square with the many cafes, shops, galleries, museums and the near by university. Here there is much to see and explore on your own… a list of recommendations, tour guidebooks and city maps are available.

You can enjoy a casual dinner at Stacja Rynek on the Old Town Square; outdoor seating, weather permitting. Walk back to the hotel.

Overnight Warsaw, Breakfast, Dinner

Day 9  Wednesday - Warsaw
Our tour today will start with an orientation to the incredible Jewish revival in Poland by one of the Taube Foundation Warsaw office staff.

Later in the day, a tour of Warsaw; this guided tour that includes the “Ohel” for an installation & tour of ultra modern Museum of the History of Polish Jews (scheduled to be opened in 2011). The tour will provide an overview of the nation’s capital and its important landmarks during the last century’s dramatic upheavals. The city was rebuilt after its destruction by Nazi Germany and is undergoing enormous construction and renovations since the 1989 defeat of the communist system. Our tour will also include two important Jewish sites: Mila 18, the last hideout of Warsaw ghetto resistance fighters, and the Umschlagplatz, the Nazi train depot from where thousands of Warsaw ghetto inhabitants were deported to Treblinka.

Later we will visit the Ringelblum Archives and other collections at the Jewish Historical Institute (JHI), the world’s largest repository of 900 years of Polish Jewish history and the first research institution to document the Holocaust immediately following WWII.

We will complete our tour today with a visit to the Warsaw Jewish Cemetery. The cemetery director is Yisroel Szpilman, cousin of Wladyslaw Szpilman, portrayed in the Roman Polanski film, “The Pianist”. Yisroel Szpilman who takes pride in his important work of preserving the past, often is available to “guide” the visitors.

Option for this evening is a concert at the National Opera House, one of the nation’s pinnacle attractions.

Dinner and overnight – Warsaw, Breakfast, Dinner

Day 10 Thursday - Krakow

Arrival in Krakow. Transfer to our centrally located hotel, close to the Old Town Square. We will enjoy a comprehensive walking tour of the Old Town Square, called Rynek Glowny and the walled castle. We continue with a visit to the Galicia Jewish Museum, in the Jewish district Kazimierz and the near by 900 seat Tempel Synagogue. Here on Szeroka Street is the district’s main town square, complete with historic and renovated synagogues, coffee houses, restaurants, bookshops and galleries.

Onto a comprehensive tour of Czestochowa. Czestochowa is the world-famous pilgrimage site, where hundreds of thousands of Catholics gather in August to pay homage to the Black Madonna icon at the Jasna Gora convent. Czestochowa was also the home to a thriving Jewish population prior to WWII. Today, city officials, university and secondary school teachers, librarians, archivists and ordinary townspeople are preserving the Jewish past and educating younger generations through innovative projects that have earned awards by the Ministries of Culture and Education.

Dinner and overnight in Krakow, Breakfast, Dinner

Day 11 Friday - Krakow

Our tour today will pay tribute to the millions who perished by the hands of the Nazis during the war years.  Our tour is to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp. We will be guided by the best guides trained by the Auschwitz State Museum. After touring the Nazi camps, we will visit the Auschwitz Jewish Center in the nearby town of Oswiecim, where the glorious history of the prewar Jewish community is exhibited and where study internships for American college students and military cadets are held. The Center is under the auspices of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. Dinner and overnight in Krakow, Breakfast, Dinner

Day 12

Transfer to the airport for our flight home.

Book online or Call: 1-800-355-9994

Our Jewish Heritage Tours are based on groups of 15 and more.
Individuals and smaller groups can still enjoy the tour at additional supplement.