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