Liberation Route places in Poland

Poland was the first country that Hitler invaded by using military action on 01 September 1939 and starting the World War II. On 17 September, 1939 the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east.

You invite you discover the Polish sites of World War II with our 11 -days itinerary.

Start: Gdansk
End: Krakow

According to you flight schedule, you can start your program in any city in Poland

Itinerary – 11 days

Day 1 Gdansk

Arrival Gdansk
After warm welcome transfer to your hotel
Accommodation

Day 2 Gdansk – Gdynia – Sopot

After breakfast City Tour of Gdansk: visit Westerplatte – The exact location of the first battle of World War 2 . Visit Old Town Gdansk, St. Mary’s Church, City Hall, Golden and Green Gates, Neptune Fountain, Long Street.
Visit Polish Post Museum
Visit the Museum of the Second World War
overnight in Gdańsk

Day 3 Gdansk – Sztutowo- Kętrzyn

After breakfast transfer to Sztutowo/ Stutthof – 50 km
Visit Stutthof Musuem
Transfer to Kętrzyn -200 km
An overnight stay at your hotel in Ketrzyn

Day 4 Ketrzyn – Warsaw

After breakfast visit Wolfsschanze –Wolf’s Lair. This tour brings you closer to an almost unknown site of World War. Visit to the Adolf Hilter’s war headquarters. It’s a hidden town in the woods consisting of 200 buildings: shelters, barracks, 2 airports, a power station, a railway station, air-conditioners, water supplies, heat-generating plants and two teleprinters. In 1944 more than 2000 people lived here.
Transfer to Warsaw – ab. 260 km
An overnight stay at your hotel 4* in Warsaw

Day 5 Warsaw

After breakfast Guided tour of Warsaw
Enjoy a tour of Warsaw to introduce the highlights of the city: the Old Town with a lovely Market Square and the Barbican, the majestic Royal Castle
Drive the Royal Route with Presidential Palace, the Tomb of Unknown Soldier, the Holy Cross church with the heart of Chopin buried there, and walk around the Lazienki Park with its famous Chopin Monument and Palace on the Water.
In the afternoon – visit Warsaw Rising Museum – This interactive museum really is a „must-see” for any visitors who want to understand Warsaw, and Poland’s, tragic history during WW2
Overnight in Warsaw

Day 6 Warsaw

After breakfast Jewish Warsaw City Tour -tour to the Memorial Route of Jewish Martyrdom and Struggle.
We start from visiting remnants of ghetto walls, still preserved in one of the courtyards. Then we visit the former ghetto area to see the monument to heroes of Warsaw ghetto, Umschlagplatz memorial. This memorial stands on the former muster point for the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto. In the 1942 and 1943, more than 300,000 were taken from here to the death camp at Treblinka.
Sightseeing tour including also Mila 18, Nozyk Synagogue (only one that survived WW II) , Janusz Korczak Monument Jewish cemetery at Okopowa street – the largest Jewish cemetery in the world
Visit the Museum of the History of Polish Jews

Day 7 Lublin – Kazimierz Dolny – Krakow

After breakfast transfer to Lublin – 178 km / eventually stop in Polish Nobility Palace housing now the museum of Social Realism; Lubartow – Jewish cemetery/
Visit the best preserved Nazi concentration camp of the Holocaust – Majdanek Camp. Visit to block houses, a gas chamber and crematory.
Sightseeing Lublin: Old town, former Jewish quarter, oldest Jewish Cemetery in Poland – the Old Kirkut, building of the pre-war Academy of the Lublin Sages and the Synagogue of the Chevra Nossim Funeral Society.
An overnight stay at your hotel 4* in Lublin.

Day 8 Lublin – Kazimierz Dolny – Kraków

Breakfast
Transfer to Krakow – 308 km
Stop in Kazimierz Dolny- beautiful and littlie town visit the Synagogue at Maly Rynek and market square
Transfer to Krakow
An overnight stay at your hotel 4* in Krakow

Day 9 Krakow

After breakfast – Enjoy Krakow City Tour and discover the richest history of the former capital of Poland the Unesco -listed monuments of Krakow oldest district, The Royal Route and the Wawel Castle, St Peter and Paul’s Church, St Mary’s Basilica, Cloth Hall
Visit Kazimierz Jewish Quarter, including: The Altshul –the oldest synagogue in Poland, The Remuh Synagogue with Jewish Cemetery, Adler’s Pharmacy and Oskar Schindler Factory Museum.
Visit Plaszow Camp – the former Nazi labour camp.
Overnight in Krakow

Day 10 Krakow – Oświęcim- Wieliczka

Breakfast
Leave Krakow for a morning to visit the Wieliczka Salt Mine Museum and Auchwitz Birkenau Musuem.
The historic Salt Mine Wieliczka is the only mine construction in the world that works steadily from the Middle Ages to our times. It is listed at UNESCO World Heritage List.
Auschwitz-Birkenau – a witness to one of the greatest crime in human history. Since 1979 the biggest Nazi concentration camp is listed at UNESCO World Heritage List. The concentration camp is being constantly visited by tourists from all over the world.
An overnight stay at your hotel 4* in Krakow.

Day 11 Krakow departure

Breakfast
Transfer to airport

The above schedule is to be considered as an example. Should you be interested, we will prepare an individual offer adapted to your preferred dates, standard of hotel, number of people, all according to your wishes, preferences and financial requirements.