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• The Old Jewish Quarter in Krakow
  
  
• The Jewish Museum/Remuh Synagogue/Adjacent cemetery:  The Remuh Synagogue was founded in 1553 by a prominent family who had been bankers to the king. Moses Isserles, known as ‘Remuh,' the founder's son, gave the building its name. It remains the only synagogue in Krakow that continues to function as an actual place of worship.
  
  
• Auschwitz-Birkenau: The notorious camp, where over three million Jews were murdered.
  
  
• March of the Living: an international, educational program that this year will bring Jews around the world to Poland on Holocaust Memorial Day with the goal of retelling the story of the Holocaust.
  
  
• Gesia Street Cemetery: The Warsaw Jewish Cemetery situated in Okopowa Street (former Gesia Street), founded in 1799, is one of the world's largest Jewish cemeteries and constitutes spiritual and material commemoration for the Jewish nation murdered by Nazis in Poland. Thousands of corpses have been buried here, among them many rabbis, Chasidism spiritual masters, Hebraic language propagators, Yiddish literature and press writers, theater artists, great writers, actors and historians, as well as many people of Jewish origin who claimed their Polish nationality. In addition, the ashes of thousands of unknown and nameless ghetto victims were placed in mass tombs dating back to World War II.
  
  
• Old Town Market Square: home to old, yet charming architecture, quaint cafes and restaurants, the Square's small, enticing shops create a unique atmosphere that is not found in other cities in Europe. In warmer weather, the square becomes filled with cafe tables and artists performing outside.  Until the end of the 18th century, the Old Town Market Square was the most important place in Warsaw. Regular fairs and festivities were held here. During World War II, the market square turned into rubble, but after many years of reconstruction it was restored to its original beauty.
  
  
• Warsaw Ghetto: See the Umschlagplatz (collection point) from where many of the Jews were deported to the death camp at Treblinka and Maijdanek. A commemorative Gateway Monument was built on the site of Umschlagplatz, etched with the names of 400 Jews. The train station began its first actions in the summer of 1942.   Visit Mila 18, the bunker commemorating Mordechai Anilewicz, commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.  More than 100 people died on May 8,1942  when the Nazis surrounded the bunker.Nothing remains but it is marked by a commemorative stone engraved in Polish, Yiddish and Hebrew.
  
  
• Nozyk Synagogue: The Nozyk is Warsaw's only synagogue surviving the war, then located in the ghetto. The Germans allowed public worship there in autumn 1941, but it was later used as a stable.The synagogue was renovated and reconstructed between 1977-83.
  
  
• Yizkor service at the Maijdanek Barracks, Crematorium: The crematorium, which is shown to tourists, is located at the top of a long slope, behind the spot where the barracks in Field V once stood. It is the second crematorium that was built in the camp and it was not in operation until the autumn of 1943.  When the camp first opened, the bodies were buried in mass graves, but from June 1942 on, there were burned in the first crematorium or on pyres made from the chassis of old trucks.
  
• Visit Kielce for a glimpse of Shtetl life
  
• Travel to the Yeshiva in Lubin
  
• Meet with Poland's Chief rabbi, community leaders, young Jewish students and Aliyah candidates.
  
• Briefing by the Israeli ambassador and the directors of JDC and JAFI on  their activities within the nascent Jewish community.