Warsaw, Budapest, Vienna & Prague – Honoring the Jewish Heritage 2025

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On our special Jewish Heritage tour, explore and reflect on poignant sites throughout Warsaw, Budapest, Vienna and Prague – including the Warsaw Ghetto memorial; Plaszów concentration camp in Crakow; the memorial at Auschwitz-Birkenau; Dohány, Kazinczy and Frankel synagogues in Budapest; the Jewish Museum in Vienna; Terezin concentration camp near Prague; and...
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Overview

Trip type
Small Group Tour
Lodging level
Premium - 4 star
Physical level
Moderate

Highlights

    • Become immersed in the cultural legacies and poignant history of the Jewish communities of Warsaw
    • Budapest
    • Vienna and Prague on this special Jewish heritage tour.Emotionally stirring
    • historic sites are inextricably linked to their Jewish heritage
    • offering a chance to learn
    • in depth
    • reflect and remember the sacrifices that were made there.Sites include the Ghetto Memorial
    • the Jewish Historical Institute
    • Nozyk Synagogue and the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (POLIN) in Warsaw; Kazimierz (the former Jewish Quarter) and Plaszów concentration camp in Kraków
    • with a stop at Oskar Schindler's factory; and the poignant museum and memorial in Auschwitz-Birkenau. In Budapest

What's this trip about?

    On our special Jewish Heritage tour, explore and reflect on poignant sites throughout Warsaw, Budapest, Vienna and Prague – including the Warsaw Ghetto memorial; Plaszów concentration camp in Crakow; the memorial at Auschwitz-Birkenau; Dohány, Kazinczy and Frankel synagogues in Budapest; the Jewish Museum in Vienna; Terezin concentration camp near Prague; and Josefov, Prague's historic Jewish Quarter.

Details

Itinerary focusOperator does not provide
Group sizeSmall Group - 24 max
Age rangeNo age restrictions
Flights and transportN/A
Start City Warsaw, Poland
End CityPrague

Travel Themes

  • Cultural

Destinations

Activities

  • Culture

Trip includes

    • Prayer and a Q&A with a Rabbi during exclusive, private access in the Frankel Synagogue in Budapest Visits to the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial, Umschlagplatz, the Jewish Historical Institute, Nozyk Synagogue and the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (POLIN) Visit to Plaszów concentration camp in Kraków Visit to Poland's poignant museum and memorial at Auschwitz-Birkenau Private piano recital of Chopin music in Warsaw Walking tour of Budapest's Jewish Quarter; Dohány & Kazinczy synagogues

Itinerary

Travel Map

Day 1 Arrive Warsaw

Tour begins: 6:00 PM, the Hotel Bristol, Warsaw.
A transfer is included from Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport to your historic hotel on Warsaw's fashionable "Royal Route." Meet your travel companions and your Tauck Director at tonight's welcome reception and dinner with a regional flair in the hotel, a Warsaw landmark fo...
Day 2 The Warsaw Ghetto Memorial, Polin Museum & Chopin

As the first full day of your Jewish Heritage tour begins, join our local guide for a Warsaw city sightseeing tour to sites that honor and commemorate the Jews who were deported or killed during World War II. Visit the Nozyk Synagog...

Day 3 Kraków, Plaszów concentration camp & more

Start the day on a journey by coach across the Polish countryside to ancient Kraków, the country's medieval capital and considered one of the finest medieval cities in Europe, for a two-night stay; its historic center (Old Town) is ...

Day 4 Visit Kazimierz in Kraków & poignant Auschwitz-Birkenau

In Kraków this morning, drive through Kazimierz, the city's former Jewish Quarter (holidays permitting); once a separate town dating back to the 14th century, but was nearly destroyed by the Nazis during World War II, this historic ...

Day 5 Through the Tatra Mountains, bound for Hungary & Budapest

Travel from Poland through the scenic Tatra Mountains, stopping for lunch in Slovakia en route to Hungary. Arrive in Budapest, where you'll have dinner tonight – with wine included – aboard Tauck's private dinner cruise on the Danub...

Day 6 Synagogues & the Jewish Quarter in Budapest

The Danube River divides Budapest into two distinct areas, Buda and Pest. Today, Tauck's locally guided sightseeing shows you the best of Pest, sprawling along the eastern banks of the Danube. View the city's historic embassy distri...

Day 7 Parliament, Buda & the Holocaust Memorial

Today includes a guided tour of Hungary's neo-Gothic Parliament building in Pest, an icon of Budapest's skyline. Crossing over to Buda, you can practically feel the history that's been made inside the Gothic Matthias Church, among t...

Day 8 A walking tour of Bratislava, Slovakia's ancient capital, en route to Vienna

Travel today on Tauck's Jewish Heritage tour from Hungary through Slovakia en route to Austria, stopping in Slovakia's ancient capital city, Bratislava. Discover 17 centuries worth of history along the cobblestoned, vehicle-free str...

Day 9 Exploring Jewish history, life & culture in Vienna

Discover a Jewish perspective of life in Vienna that goes back over 800 years on a comprehensive city tour today. Once one of the most prominent centers of Jewish culture in Europe and gradually recovering since 1945, when the city'...

Day 10 Vienna's Judenplatz & a private palace concert

Today's guided Jewish heritage tour of Vienna includes visits to the Stadttempel (the only synagogue in the city that survived World War II), the Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, and the Jewish Museum in Judenplatz, the historic Jewis...

Day 11 From Vienna to Prague

Depart Vienna and cross the border into the Czech Republic en route to Prague, the ancient capital of today's modern Czech Republic. Following lunch, set off on a tour of Prague's medieval Old Town, the iconic Charles Bridge and enj...

Day 12 Terezin concentration camp outside Prague

During World War II, German propaganda led the world to believe that Terezin (Theresienstadt) – located about 38 miles northwest of Prague – was a model village built to protect the Jews, safekeeping them from the war. The ruse work...

Day 13 The Strahov Libraries, Josefov (Jewish Quarter) & a farewell evening

Begin the day with an exclusive-to-Tauck, privately guided tour of the opulent Baroque libraries of Strahov Monastery in the heart of Prague, restored to their 17th- and 18th-century glory. Then meet up with your local guide to expl...

Day 14 Journey home

Tour ends: Prague, Czech Republic.
 

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It's easy to see the world's sights. To stand in long lines, push through the crowds, and generally have the same standard-issue vacation as everyone else. But that's not good enough for us, and it's not good enough for you. We believe that travel should be easy. It should be fun. It should be worth your time and the price you paid. It should re-energize and transform. And above all else, it should be beyond the ordinary. Because how you see the world matters.

In 1882, Herman Tauck arrived in New York City from Germany in search of the American dream. His determination and values were passed on to his son, Arthur Tauck, who would realize that dream. With ingenuity and an innovative spirit, Arthur started Tauck Motor Tours, a travel company that would give birth to a new industry. The first tour, through the back roads of New England, was created by this 27-year-old in 1925. It embodied the same successful formula used by Tauck today: do the right thing. Craft a life-enriching travel experience; provide it at a single all-inclusive price; ensure there is great value for money; and rely on recommendations of satisfied customers to build a following and grow the business.

Two elements that did change over the next 90+ years – and three generations of Taucks – were the scope of destinations served and the variety of modes of travel used. Today Tauck delivers life-enriching travel experiences to every corner of the globe, incorporating small cruise ships, premium riverboats, trains, helicopters and more. What started as a New England motor coach tour company has truly evolved into an extraordinary global travel company. The fourth generation of Taucks is now involved in the company. While remarkable in any business, this seamless continuity across generations speaks to shared vision and values.

Throughout its history, the concept of “family” at Tauck has gone far beyond those sharing the surname to include hundreds of valued employees, and hundreds of thousands of loyal guests. The story of Tauck is the story of a unique American family company celebrating a passion for travel – a story that will continue to inspire generations to come.

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