12-Day Break

Day 1 – We travel to the Amsterdam area for an overnight stay.
Day 2 – The story of the Frank Family and a visit to Anne Frank’s House (included). The Frank family went into hiding in the ‘Secret Annexe’ of their home on 6th July 1942; they 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. Then we travel on to Hannover for the night. B
Day 3 – Bergen-Belsen and Anne Frank’s Memorial (included). 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 three nights. B
Day 4 – Berlin and the Final Solution (included). We visit the Wansee Conference Centre, where the infamous meeting that took place determined the ‘Final Solution’ and fate of European Jews. B
Day 5 – German Resistance and the Holocaust Memorial (included). We see the new Holocaust monument and several sites associated with Jewish culture. Completed in May 2005, 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 Berlin Wall remains and Glenicke 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 (included). We visit the factory and other 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 – The Auschwitz Story (included). A sight of great significance to the Holocaust, we visit the Auschwitz site 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. B
Day 9 – We travel to Prague and stop for the night. B
Day 10 – The Heydrich Story and Nuremburg Courtroom (included) Reinhard Heydrich was one of Hitler’s most ruthless Nazis, second in importance only to Heinrich Himmler in the SS organisation; he was the principle planner of the Final Solution. We cover his story as we pass through the Czech Republic. On arrival in Nuremburg, we look into the War Crimes Trials, when we visit the court room (subject to modern-day court procedures not taking place) used to administer justice to many who took part. We stay tonight in Nuremburg. B
Day 11 –Travel through the Rhine Valley to Belgium for an overnight stay. B
Day 12 – We journey to Calais, then return home. B

Accommodation
You stay overnight at the 3-star NH Leeuwenhorst or similar, to the west of Amsterdam, followed by the 4-star Ramada Hotel Britannia in Hannover or similar. In Berlin, you’ll stay for three nights at the 3-star Ramada Globus, Berlin. The hotel has a restaurant and bar. All bedrooms have T.V. and telephone.

You then stay for three nights at the 3-star Express by Holiday Inn Krakow, in the northern part of the city. The hotel has a restaurant, lobby, bar and lift. All bedrooms have T.V., telephone, hairdryer, air-conditioning and tea/coffee-making facilities.

In Prague you will stay at the 3-star Hotel Belvedere and then you’ll will stay overnight at the 3-star Ramada Landhotel in Nuremberg or the Ramada Residenzschloss Hotel in Bayreuth.

Overnight in Belgium will be in a city-style hotel.

Extras
Optional Excursions.
Single room supplement £219
Travel Insurance from £442.95