Budapest Bratislava Vienna Prague

Day 1: Monday

Welcome on board. Today you will: 

• Visit the Budapest Castle District
• Explore Budapest’s first Jewish Quarter and its medievil synagogue (outside only)
• Visit the Dohany Street Synagogue, the second largest synagogue on earth
• See what remains of the Naza-era ghetto wall
• Pay your respects at the Tree of Life monument which commemorates the deportation and mass murder of Hungarian Jewry
• Visit the mass grave in which the allies buried bodies after entering the ghetto
• See the birthplace of Theodore Hertzl, the founder of modern political Zionism
• Learn about the rebirth of the Jewish community and explore today’s Jewish quarter

Overnight: Budapest

Day 2: Tuesday

Today you will:

• Visit Vaci Street, one of Budapest’s central entertainment areas
• Marvel at St Stephen’s Basilica, a beautiful symbol of Budapest
• Pay your respects at the Shoes on the Danube Monument commemorating the Jews massacred and thrown into the Danube  River
• See Hungary’s magnificent parliament building
• Visit Liberty Square where ordinary Hungarians erected a memorial to the collaboration of masses in the extermination of Hungarian Jewry
•  Have time to explore independently and take in Budapest’s beauty
• Enjoy a cruise on the Danube

Overnight: Budapest

Day 3: Wednesday

Today you will:

• Travel to Bratislava
• Visit the Hatam Sofer Memorial to learn about one of the most important rabbis of the 18th century, how the memorial survived the communist era, and Bratislava’s Jewish community
• Explore the Old City including its memorials to the Holocaust and the 7 October attacks on Israel
• Learn about prominent Jewish families who called the Old Town home
• Travel to Vienna

Overnight: Vienna

Day 4: Thursday

Today you will:

• Visit the Hapsburg Palace, home to generations of royals
• See the balcony from which Hitler declared the annexation of Austria
• Visit the Judenplaatz, once the center of Jewish life in Vienna
• Pay your respects at the Holocaust memorial
• View the remains of the ancient synagogue destroyed in a medievil pogrom
• Explore Vienna’s Jewish museum
• Take in the sites and sounds of Austria’s capital

Overnight: Vienna

Day 5: Friday

Today you will:

• Travel to Prague
• Ascend the Petrin Tower for a panoramic view over the city
• Attend a Kaballat Shababt service at the Altneu Shule, the world’s oldest continually used synagogue
• Enjoy Shabbat dinner with the local community.

Overnight: Prague

Day 6: Saturday

Today you will enjoy a walking tour taking in: 

• The famous chain bridge
• The Lesser Quarter
• The changing of the guards at Prague Castle
• Prague Castle and the residence of the Czech President
• The Old Town Square
• The Prague Astronomical Clock
• The Jan Hus Monument
• The Powder Tower

Overnight: Prague

Day 7: Sunday

Today you will visit the Terezin concentration camp with a noted Holocaust historian. You will: 

• View the arrivals platform at which families were separated
• See the Ghetto living quarters
• Visit the Ghetto Museum
• Learn of the Red Cross’ ill-fated visit to the Ghetto
• Enter the concentration camp section and see the SS dining quarters
• View the concentration camp barracks
• See the punishment cells of the concentration camp
• Hear of the unimaginable suffering that the Nazis inflicted upon Jewish victims
• Take in the Jewish cemetery

Overnight: Prague

Day 8: Monday

Today will:

• Tour the Altneu Shule where the Golem of Prague is believed to rest
• Hear the story of the Golem of Prague and learn about the great Maharal of Prague
• Take in the 80,000 names of Holocaust victims displayed at the Pinkus Synagogue
• Visit the medievil Jewish cemetery
• See the remains of an ancient Mikveh bath
• Marvel at the beauty of the Spanish Synagogue
• Explore the Jewish Museum at the Maiselova Synagogue
• Visit the site of the final stand of the brave Czech partisans who assassinated the brutal Nazi leader Heydrich

your tour ends this evening. Bon voyage!