JEWISH HOLOCAUST ROUTE - TREBLINKA DEATH CAMP

Highlights of the Tour:

Treblinka, established in 1941 as a forced labor 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...

• Treblinka II + death camp for European Jews
• Death camp Museum
• optional - Treblinka I (labour camp for Poles) site

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 cost - 120 Euro + Synagogue entrance fee (3 Euro per person)

• Tykocin Jewish district (unique synagogue, now museum, streets of Jewish district, birthplace of Marc Zamenhof and others)
• optional - Łopuchowo forest mass graves of Jews murdered in 1941
• Polish part of Tykocin (catholic church, market square, Tykocin Castle, Monument to Polish Medal of White Eagle and others)

Included in the Tour:

Above price is per tour (1-4 pax), not per person

• guiding service,
• tax,
• car transportation,
• parking fees

Not included:

• Treblinka museum exhibition entrance fee (0.5 Euro per person)
• optional Tykocin tour - additional cost - 480 PLN + Synagogue entrance fee (3 Euro per person)