However, in this case we are happy to break the rigid rule at Watford Grammar School for Girls is one of the very few non Jewish schools that actively commemorate the Shoah as an educational tool and as such it's headmistress Mrs. Helen Hyde and her staff observe in one view every possible assistance they can get. please join and alert your friends about this invaluable initiative.

VISIT TO HUNGARY AND POLAND VIA SLOVAKIA

29 MAY TO 4 JUNE 2010

You may be aware that for a number of years we have been taken students on Holocaust study trips. This year I am organising an adult Holocaust Study trip to Hungary and Poland.

We will visit Budapest and Krakow. The cost of the trip will be in the region of £800 and you will have a 6 months to pay this sum. . The £800 includes half board, airport taxes, guides, all coach transfers, entrance to all museums and sites. There is a single person's supplement of £130. We will have an excellent and very experienced English guide with us throughout the week the staff on this trip are all experienced Holocaust trainers. . The trip will give you an insight into life before the Holocaust and then the enormity of the loss and destruction. You will have an opportunity to talk, to discuss and to reflect.

Some of the sites to be visited include:

Budapest:

Walking tour of Buda to include Fisherman's Bastion, Matyas Church, Buda Palace (exterior only).
Tour of Pest to include many of the main sites such as St. Stephen's Basilica, the Chain Bridge, Hero Square and sites in the former Jewish district in the Erzsebetvaros, sites in the main 1944 ghetto and in the International Ghetto.
Sites to be visited to include the Dohany utca Synagogue and Jewish Museum, the Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Garden, the Status Quo Synagogue (currently undergoing restoration), the Orthodox Synagogue and the memorial to Carl Lutz and the Terrorhaza Museum.
Possibly visit to one of the famous spa baths.

Tarnow.

This small, fascinating town contains a beautiful medieval Old Town, remnants of a notable Jewish community, a huge Jewish cemetery and a memorial to the first deportation from any town in Europe to Auschwitz in June 1940.
The Muzeum Etnograficzne houses an excellent collection relating the story of Poland's Roma (gypsy) population, considered to be one of the finest in Europe.
Vblitowska Gora to visit a memorial to a mass shooting of local Jews by the Nazis

Krakow
The old Town Square, University, Wawel Hill,
Kazimierz (the former Jewish Quarter), the Rehmu and Old Synagogue and the Pharmacy in the ghetto area, Oskar Schindler Factory,
Auschwitz- Birkenau tour,
The Galicia Photographic Gallery where we will have a short concert of Kletzmer Music.

As this is a study tour there will be short preparatory talks in the evening and we will look at art and some literature associated with the Holocaust.

We will be staying in the following hotels on a half board basis:

Budapest Best Western Grand Hotel
Krakow Hotel Campanile

Mrs Smith and Mrs Shore will be helping to organising this study visit.

There is a large demand on places for this trip so if you wish to join this study trip please would you complete the attached form and send me a £200 non returnable deposit by June 31 09