Jeff Seidel's yearly Passover Mission trip to Poland will be greater than ever this year. Don't miss out on an amazing trip to the past where you will explore former Jewish occupied areas of Poland and offer a visual standing monument to the surrounding people of our continued existence.
Enjoy the most unique Passover of a lifetime. Meet people and help make this Passover one to remember for both the Jews of Poland and yourself. Travel and assist various communities with their Passover preparations and celebrations. Be a part of the Jewish reawakening. Remember, You've got what it takes to make a difference!

ITINERARY April 4-April12

Sunday, April 04, 2010

At 3:00 am MEET AT THE AIRPORT at the information desk
Proceed to Polish Airlines LO 152 departing 6:00 am arriving in Warsaw at 9:00 am
Depart Tel Aviv for Warsaw and continue by land to Krakow.
Arrive in the old capital of Poland
Visit the Ramu cemetery- http://www.krakow-info.com/JewishQ.htm
And Plasow Labor camp- http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland/Plaszow/Plaszow01.html
Check in to the Wilga Hotel http://www.cracow-life.com/sleep/hotels_details/244-Hotel_Wilga
Getting ready for the last days of Pesach
Holiday services in Ramu Synagogue- http://www.jewishjournal.org/index.php/story/community_forum/finding_hope_on_a_visit_to_poland
Dinner will be at the hotel.
Overnight: Krakow
 

Monday, April 05, 2010
Holiday services-optional
Lunch
Walking tour of Jewish Krakow-Kazimiez,- ,- http://www.cracow-life.com/poland/krakow-kazimierz
The Ghetto Wall,
The drug store and the Schindler’s Factory http://www.krakow-info.com/ghetto.htm  http://www.cracow-life.com/news/news/674-Schindler_Factory_Shall_Open
Walking tour Wavel hill- http://www.krakow-info.com/wawel.htm
Anecdotes and the Legend of Smok-.- http://www.kresy.co.uk/waweldragon.html .
Special sessions -meet with Paulina, honored by Yad Vashem as a “Righteous among the Nations “
Hear a first hand account of the events and Jewish life in Poland
Dinner
Overnight: Krakow
 

Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Holiday services
Lunch
Walking tour in Krakow, the Market Square,- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Market_Square,_Krak%C3%B3w  
The Jaglonian University- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagiellonian_University- http://www.ces.uj.edu.pl/european/krakow.htm
Café Ziganeria, the Medieval Marketplace-- http://library.thinkquest.org/12834/text/marketplace.html
The Renaissance Cloth Hall- http://www.krakow-info.com/1clothall.htm
Dinner
Visit the Galicia Museum- http://www.galiciajewishmuseum.org   and see the exhibit "Traces of Memory"-- http://www.littman.co.uk/
Prepare for Auschwitz with Hazy -mandatory
Overnight in Krakow  
 

Wednesday April 07, 2010

Breakfast 7:00 am pack lunches
Drive to Oswiecim the location of the Ahushwitz-Birkenu Death camp-- http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/m/  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp
Head to Tarnow
Overnight: Tarnow
 

Thursday, April 08, 2010
Breakfast 7:00 am- pack lunches
We start the day in Zbilitowska Gura, where 10,000 Jews were murdered, Continue onward-
To Leszansk once a thriving center of Hassidic Judaism to the grave of Rabbi Elimelech, the Founder of Chassidut.
Continue to Belzec concentration camp.
Head to Lublin
Overnight in Lublin   
Check into Hotel Victoria   

Friday, April 09, 2010
Breakfast 7:00 am- pack Lunches
Visit Yeshivat Chachame Lublin- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chachmei_Lublin_Yeshiva  
Visit the Majdanek Extermination Camp.- http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/MajdanekEng.html
Continue to Warsaw
Check into Hotel Polonia

Saturday, April 10, 2010

 Kabbalat Shabbat and Shabbat Dinner
After Shabbat services, explore Warsaw, The former Ghetto, the Ghetto wall, Prozna Houses and more.
Shabbat Lunch
Walking tour to the old town, destroyed in the war and painstakingly reconstructed,
Heroism path-Umslag Place and Rapaport Monument
Havdallah
Prepare for Treblinka and rap up session with Hazy –mandatory
 

Sunday, April 11, 2010
After breakfast depart to Treblinka,- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treblinka_extermination_camp
Return to Warsaw
Depart for the airport and your flight to Tel Aviv.
Polish Airlines LO 151 departs April 1, 22:55 pm arrives April 12, 3:25 am
Welcome back to Israel

Restrictions, Payments and cancellations

Once your ticket has been purchased there is no refund.

Payment may be made by bank transfer, check, bank draft, cashiers check or money order.

In case of cancellations the following penalties will be deducted:

Payment may be made by bank transfer, check, bank draft, cashiers check or money order.  Payment may be sent to Ohel Avraham and sent to P.O. Box 95016, Palatine, IL 60095-0016,

 
Required Please note: You must attend our Pre trip sessions the Dates are TBA.

The Activities consist of: 
A group trip to Yad Vashem 
Sit in a lecture given by a Holocaust speaker.  (Most likely on a Thursday)