The Holocaust in Europe

Take a walking tour of Berlin

With your Field Director you will see:

• Unter den Linden, Berlin’s most elegant boulevard
• Reichstag, an iconic landmark and home to Germany's national legislature

Enjoy dinner in Berlin

Take a guided tour of Berlin

With your expert local guide you will see:

• Brandenburg Gate, Germany's iconic landmark representing peace and unity 
• Kurfürstendamm, a famous avenue that’s lined with shops, hotels, and restaurants  
• Remains of the Berlin Wall, a physical and ideological divider now covered in political graffiti 

Visit the Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz Memorial, a former meeting place for senior Nazi officials which is now a museum

Stop to take a photo at Checkpoint Charlie, a station that guarded the border between East and West Germany

Visit the Topography of Terror Museum, a history museum located on the site of buildings that served as the headquarters of the Gestapo and the SS

🔹 Independent exploration: Spend a half day exploring Berlin on your own

Visit the Jewish Museum and explore 2,000 years of German-Jewish history at this museum

🔹 Guided learning: Gain insight into life on both sides of the Iron Curtain when you participate in an illuminating panel-led discussion

Travel by train to Warsaw, Poland’s capital city which was mostly destroyed in World War II and rebuilt using photographs and paintings as reference 

Take a walking tour of Warsaw

With your Field Director you will see:

• Gestapo headquarters, where insurgents were taken for questioning
• Pawiak Prison, where anyone suspected of opposing the Nazis was sent

Enjoy dinner in Warsaw

Visit the Warsaw Ghetto Monument commemorating the heroic efforts of the Jewish resistance fighters 

Tour the Jewish Ghetto with an expert local guide, which was established in 1940 as a way to isolate the Jewish population from the rest of the city 

Visit the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews to discover the social, religious, and political diversity of Polish Jews, highlighting events from the past to the Holocaust to today 

Travel to Kraków, the only major Polish city to escape devastation during WWII 

Take a guided tour of Kraków

With your expert local guide you will see:

• Wawel Hill and Cathedral, where Polish kings were crowned and Pope John Paul II once served as archbishop 
• Glowny Square, passing beautiful Sukiennice Cloth Hall and the Jagiellonian University

Visit Wawel Cathedral, where kings were crowned and Pope John Paul II once served as archbishop

Enjoy dinner in Kraków

🔹 Cultural engagement: Visit Auschwitz and Birkenau with an expert local guide, where upwards of 1.5 million people died; walk through its barracks that serve as a chilling reminder and observe a moment of remembrance

Travel to Prague, the "City of One Hundred Spires"

🔹 Guided learning: Tour Prague with an expert local guide 

Walk down the Golden Lane and see eleven historical buildings that mark it 

Visit St. Vitus Cathedral, a Gothic cathedral where Czech Kings and Queens are coronated

Tour the Jewish Quarter with an expert local guide, and learn about the impact of Nazi occupation 

Explore the Jewish Museum

Visit the Jewish Cemetery, one of the largest in Europe

Visit the Spanish Synagogue, designed in a Moorish style

Tour the Old-New Synagogue, Europe's oldest active synagogue 

Enjoy dinner in Prague

Travel via Nuremburg, the site of the Nazi war-crime tribunals, on your way to Munich 

🔹 Cultural engagement: Tour Nuremberg with your Field Director and see architecture built up from the stone foundations bombed by the Allies during the war

Enjoy a traditional Bavarian dinner in Munich

Take a guided tour of Munich

With your expert local guide you will see:

• Olympic Stadium, built for the 1972 Olympic Games
• Residenz, the former royal palace of the Wittelsbach monarchs 
• Marienplatz, Munich's main city square

Take a WWII-focused walking tour of Munich

🔹 Guided learning: With an expert local guide, visit and reflect at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, which today serves as a memorial museum and a stark reminder of the darkest chapter in this country’s long story