CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND THE JEWISH QUESTION Tour
The 'Final Solution' was decided on 20 January 1942 and set in place an awful series of events, culminating in the murder of 6 million Jews.
Highlights
- Visit the House of the Wannsee Conference, where the ‘Final Solution’ was coordinated on 20th January 1942. See where 15 high-ranking representatives of the SS, NSDAP and various ministries met to discuss the planned deportation and murder of the European Jews.
- Berlin, with the Jewish Museum and Sunken Library, an underground library full of empty shelves, commemorating the horrific burning of Jewish books.
- The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin - on a site covering 19,000 square metres, 2711 concrete slabs of different heights commemorate the murdered Jews of Europe. An underground information centre tells the stories of the victims with photographs, diaries and farewell letters.
- The Topography of Terror exhibition, located on the site of the Gestapo headquarters and the high command of the SS. Photographs and documents trace the terrible history, from the time the Nazis took power until the end of the war.
- The Otto Weidt Museum, which tells the story of how one man bravely protected his Jewish employees and the old Jewish cemetery nearby, which was desecrated by the Nazis and has now been restored.
- The Anne Frank Centre, which includes translations of Anne's diary, detailed photographs of the family's hiding place in Amsterdam and Anne's personal photos.
- Witness the horror of the Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, the largest of the concentration camps and where over 1.1 million men, women and children lost their lives.
- Warsaw, with the tragic remains of the Jewish Ghetto, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Museum of the Warsaw Uprising and the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes. Also the charming Old Town, with its distinctive colourful houses, picturesque squares and the Royal Castle.
- Site of Treblinka extermination camp and the Treblinka Museum.
- Prague and the Jewish Quarter, with its Ghetto, Cemetery and Museum.

Photo credits:
Slideshow: Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin © Marko Priske; House of the Wannsee Conference © Shutterstock.com; remains of the Warsaw Ghetto © Shutterstock.com
Photos to the right of the tour: Roll Call Square at Auschwitz; camp blocks at Aushwitz.