Your Holiday Itinerary

• Silver Service
• Executive Coach

12-Day Break

• Day 1 – Local departure by coach then to the Noordwijkerhout area, near Amsterdam for an overnight stay.
• Day 2 – Anne Frank’s House Today we follow the story of the Frank Family with a visit to Anne Frank’s House. The Frank family went into hiding in the ‘secret annexe’ of their home on 6th July 1942 and stayed for 25 months until their betrayal on 4th August 1944. The former hiding place, where Anne Frank wrote her diary, is now a museum, recounting the history of the eight people in hiding and those who helped them during the war. Anne Frank’s diary is among the original objects on display. After, we travel on to the Hannover or Hahnenklee area for the night. B
• Day 3 – Bergen-Belsen and Anne Frank’s Memorial Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, were taken to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where thousands were dying of hunger and sickness daily. Today, all that remains on the site is a graveyard. We pause to pay our respects, seeing the memorial dedicated to Anne Frank and her sister, who both died at Bergen- Belsen. Onward travel to Berlin for a three-night stay. B
• Day 4 – Berlin and the Final Solution We spend today in and around Berlin where we visit the Wannsee Conference Centre (entrance is approximately €2 per person and entry is subject to modern day conferences not taking place) where the infamous meeting took place that determined the ‘Final Solution’ and fate of European Jews. B
• Day 5 – German Resistance and the Holocaust Memorial We see the new Holocaust monument and several sites associated with Jewish culture. This memorial is in the heart of Berlin, near the German Parliament Building and the famous Brandenburg Gate. We also spend time exploring where modern Berlin fuses with Cold War Berlin: the Allied Museum, Check Point Charlie, the remains of the Berlin Wall and Glienicke Bridge, where East and West swapped spies. B
• Day 6 – We travel to Krakow for a three-night stay. B
• Day 7 – The Oscar Schindler Story and Kasimirsh We visit some of the sites used by Oscar Schindler in his remarkable attempt to save the lives of his workers. Oscar Schindler spent millions to protect and save his Jews and died penniless, but he earned the everlasting gratitude of the Schindler-Jews. B
• Day 8 – Auschwitz A site of great significance to the Holocaust, we visit Auschwitz, seen as the central point in the plan to exterminate a whole race. In June 1942, the biggest murder campaign in history began, when the Nazis began their plot to systematically destroy the entire Jewish population of Europe. The great majority of Jews deported to Auschwitz – men, women and children – were immediately sent to their deaths in the gas chambers. An extremely moving day. B
• Day 9 – We travel to Prague for an overnight stay. B
• Day 10 – The Heydrich Story and Nuremberg Reinhard Heydrich was one of Hitler’s most ruthless Nazis, second in importance only to Heinrich Himmler in the SS organisation, and the principle planner of the Final Solution. We briefly cover his story as we pass through the Czech Republic. On arrival in Nuremberg, we look into the War Crimes Trials and see the court house used to administer justice to many who took part. We stay tonight in Nuremberg or Bayreuth. B
• Day 11 – Travel through the Rhine Valley to Belgium for an overnight stay. B
• Day 12 – To Calais, then return home. B

Included Meals: B=Breakfast

Please Note: Entrance fees to museums and places of interest are at extra cost.