Itinerary of Summer 2024

Friday July 26: Arrive to Krakow Airport early morning. Shachris on the plane. 
Travel to Oswiecim. Visit the only Bais Hamedrash not destroyed by the Nazis during WWII, have breakfast.  Visit Auschwitz say a Kapitel Tehilim and learn what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews of Europe.
Back to Krakow for Shabbos:

Visit Miadowa cemetery:  Maor V'Shemesh, Reb Shimon Soifer & other Tzadikim, light lunch.  Shabbos prayers  in Bais Haknesses of the Remu , Motzei Shabbos the cemetery of Remu and some of the greatest tzadikim of our heritage.
Sunday July 28: We leave early  and head east making a stop in Lancut. Visit the shul built by the Potocki/Lubomirski Royal family, and saved from Nazi  destruction by Count Alfred Potocki. From there to the Belzec Vernichtungs Lager. Then on to celebrate the Yahrtzeit of the Ohr Hachuchma. Reb Ira Favel, Av Bais Din of Dubienka, mechaber of the sefer Ohr Hachchma, 3rd generation student of the Baal Shem Tov, and the Choze of Lublin. My wife and I had the zechus  to build the Ohel of the Tzadik and replace his Matezeva. There will be a Minyan as a group from London will be coming to join us in Dubienka. After Tehilim & Kaddish we will travel to Lezjask be mispalel at Reb Elimelech, dinner and sleep in Lezjansk
Monday July 29:   Visit Pilzno, the town where the Singer and Adler families came from. On to Tarnow, a city that had a  45% Orthodox/Chasidic population and visit the bima of the Bais Haknesses where Reb Mayer Arik was Ruv  that was  destroyed by the Nazis. Travel to Zbilitowska Gora, the forest where the mass grave 800 children of the Jewish Orphanage of Tarnow were brutally murdered by the Nazis.  Sleep in Sanz.  Shachris and breakfast in Divrei  Chaim's Bais Hamedrash.
Tuesday July 30: Cross the border to Slovakia  and visit Kosica, a wealthy city where many Galicianer gedolim saved themselves after WWII. Cross the border to Hungary on to Ujhel the resting place of the Yismach Moshe. Beautifully restored Shul in Mad , Reb Isaac of Kalev.  Reb Shayale ben Reb Moshe's ohel, dinner and sleep in Keresztur.
Wednesday July 31: Shachris & breakfast in Reb Shayale's house. Cross the border to Romania. On to Satumar visit the shul where the Satumarer Rebbe, Rabeini Yoel Teitelbaum blew Shofer and made Hakufos and see the sign of the Parasha remains hanging as it was during the deportations of the Hungarian  and Romanian Jews in April, May and June of 1944. Visit Sacueni where one of the most prestigious yeshivas in Transylvania was and Mrs. Singer's birth town. Visit the cemetery that was rescued from Gypsy occupation. Dinner and sleep in Budapest.
Thursday  August 1: After davening and breakfast in the Kazinczy synagogue. We travel on to Bratislava/ Pressburg  and visit the Holy Chasam  Sofer. Return  from Vienna to NY.

Sunday April 23

Leave NY to Krakow Poland,
arrive Monday morning, board an air conditioned bus.
We will travel to Auschwitz/Birkenau extermination camp and museum.

Monday April 24

The annual March of the Living. Thousands of Jews and non Jews will march
from Birkenau to Auschwitz, as Zechor V'altishkach to commemorate
the six million martyrs of the Holocaust.
Kaddish in Birkenau by crematorium #3.
Minche in the only shtibal of Lomdei Mishnayos in Oswiecim,
the newly renovated shul that survived WWII.
Back to Krakow dinner, Maariv and sleep.

Tuesday April 25

We will visit the city of Lodz,
a city currently undergoing the Jewish Renaissance.
This was the home of the wealthiest Jews in pre war Poland.
The city council had a majority of Alexander Chasidim,
with a good representation of Gur and Slonim.
We will visit the Poznanski Palace, and the opulent cemetery.
if time allows we will side step to the newly
restored ohel of Reb Duvid, of Lelov.
Dinner and sleep in Krakow.

Wednesday April 26

Tarnow- the bima, remnant of Rav Mayer Ariks's shul.
The mass graves of the Jewish orphanage at
Zbilitovska Gora Pilzno to our ancestral gravesite,
Reb Elimilech in Lezajck . Dinner and sleep Lezjansk.

Thursday April 27

Lancut the beautiful Shul of the Choze,
the grand Potacky's Palace,
Sanz the restored synagogue of the Divrei Chaim , the ohel,
dinner in the new hachnosas orchim.
The cemetery in Kosica Slovakia
sleep in Kosica.

Friday April 28

Early morning April 28 Cross the border to Hungary
to the Magificent Shul in Mad,
then to Reb Yeshayele of Keresztur.
One day before his Yahrtzeit.
Nyiregyhaza the Holy Rebitzen Sura Miriam,
Kalov and Nyirvasvari, to Tokaji

Shabbbos April 29

Tokaji menuchas Shabbos with three seudos Shabbos.

Sunday April 30

(Perhaps return to Keresztur),
Hajdunanas to ancestral graves Godollo,
The summer palace of the Hungarian royalty.
Dinner and Boscolo Hotel in Budapest.
If time allows a boat ride on the Danube.