Depart on your international overnight flight.

Your guide will meet you at the airport and escort you to your hotel for dinner and your overnight stay in Warsaw. Tonight’s Presentation: Our hopes and expectations for the trip.

Today, you’ll walk the streets of Warsaw, home to the sorrow and resilience of the Polish people. Begin your day in the Royal Baths Park, home to the Chopin Monument. Continue on to Holy Cross Church, where the heart of Chopin rests. Walk a portion of Prozna Street, the last remnant of the Nazi Warsaw Ghetto. Stop at Maly Powstaniec (The Little Insurgent), a statue dedicated to the children who fought in the Warsaw uprising of 1944. Reflect at the Umschlagplatz, where a monument stands to remind people that this was the place where Jews from the ghetto were herded into rail cars to be transported to the Treblinka Extermination Camp. Spend time at the Polin Museum, highlighting the history of the Jewish community in Poland. Return to the hotel in Warsaw for dinner and your overnight stay.

This morning, you’ll depart Warsaw. Walk the grounds of Auschwitz, the largest of the Nazi concentration camps, established in German-occupied Poland. It is estimated that nearly 1.1 million people were killed here, about 90 percent of whom were from almost every European country. Then, travel through the Polish countryside to Krakow, where you will check into your hotel for dinner and your overnight stay. Today’s Presentation: Reflections on a day at Auschwitz

Begin your day with a walk down a portion of the Royal Way to Wawel Castle. Once home to the rulers of Poland, the castle was also the bastion of Christianity. Pope John Paul II said his first Mass in the Crypt here and would later serve as the Archbishop of Krakow. From here, we will explore the Kazimierz (Jewish Quarter) for traces of their history. This afternoon, you’ll visit Oskar Schindler’s factory and museum. Return to your hotel in Krakow for dinner and your overnight stay.

Today, you will leave Krakow behind as you travel to Ksiaz Castle and learn about its role in the Riese Bunkers. Nazis confiscated property and used concentration camp labor to work toward a headquarters and military facility here. See the Gliwitz Radio Tower and learn about its place at the beginning of World War II. Finish your day in Prague, where you will check into your hotel for dinner and your overnight stay. Today’s Presentation: The courage to be - nurturing moral courage in the community.

Today, enjoy a city tour of Prague. Explore one of the largest castles in the world, Prague Castle, and tour St. Vitus Cathedral. Walk the streets of the Stare Misto (Old Town) with its Astronomical Clock. Visit Wenceslas Square, named for the patron saint of Bohemia. This afternoon, you’ll walk the streets of the Jewish Ghetto, whose origins date back to the 1500s. See the Ceremonial Hall and visit one of the synagogues that is part of the Jewish Museum of Prague. Return to your hotel for dinner and your overnight stay.

Today, we will learn more about the non-Jewish victims of the Third Reich. Travel to Lidice, a village where the residents were slaughtered as revenge for the assassination of Nazi General Heydrich. You’ll stop at the memorial to the murdered children of Lidice and a small museum here. Continue to Terezin, a Czech military fortress that was transformed by the Nazis into a concentration camp. Those brought here were the local populations of Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Germany. It was designed to imprison those who opposed the Nazi regime and Jews. Return to Prague for time to explore and shop in the city before returning to the hotel for dinner and your overnight stay. Today’s Presentation: I can’t forgive - not yet: The life-long process of forgiveness.