JEWISH HOLOCAUST ROUTE - TREBLINKA DEATH CAMP

Jewish Holocaust route - Treblinka Death Camp

Time: 4-6 hours including driving time

Participants: 1-4 persons

For larger groups extra transportation (mini-van, bus) cost will be added - please contact for details

Price includes: guiding service, tax, car transportation, parking fees

Additional costs: Treblinka museum exhibition entrance fee (0.5 € per person)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Treblinka, established in 1941 as a forced labour camp for Poles is located 100 km northeast of Warsaw. Within a year a second camp was built which became a symbol of the extermination of the central European Jews. Opened on July 23, 1942, as the Warsaw ghetto deportation began it resulted in total 850 thousand victims. Handled with the utmost of secrecy, surrounded by two barbed wire fences was a scene of organized revolt of Jewish prisoners in August 1943, after which was liquidated in October 1943. Today a symbolic memorial monument and 17 thousand stones mark the site of Jewish tragedy...

If you have more time a tour can be extended by a visit to Tykocin - east of the former Nazi camp at Treblinka, just before Bialystok. Once an important trade centre owned by King Zygmunt August who maintained a second royal residence at Radziwill Castle just outside the town, where the national arsenal was kept until the castle was destroyed in 1657 during the Swedish invasion. Tykocin became a typical Jewish shtetl by 1800, the population was 70% Jewish. Before WW2, the village had 5,000 inhabitants, half of them Catholics and the other half Jewish. All of the 2,500 Jewish residents of Tykocin were taken to the nearby Lupochowo forest and shot by the Nazis in the Summer of 1941. Today Tykocin looks the same as it did before WW2 - you can still see Jewish wooden houses, one of the finest Synagogues in Poland built in 1642 (now museum) and admire the perfect harmony of both Christian and Jewish architecture.

additional time needed - 2-3 hours

additional costs - 120 € (guiding service) + Tykocin Synagogue entrance fee (3 € per person)