{"id":499,"date":"2019-08-24T16:48:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T16:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site112.blogs.americavip.com\/2019\/08\/24\/jewish-heritage-tours\/"},"modified":"2019-09-03T13:49:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T13:49:26","slug":"jewish-heritage-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/en\/2019\/08\/24\/jewish-heritage-tours\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Heritage Tours"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_496\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-496\" class=\"wp-image-496 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/site112.blogs.americavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/113\/files\/sites\/113\/2019\/08\/Jewish-Heritage-Tours.jpg\" alt=\"Jewish Heritage Tours\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/113\/files\/sites\/113\/2019\/08\/Jewish-Heritage-Tours.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/113\/files\/sites\/113\/2019\/08\/Jewish-Heritage-Tours-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/113\/files\/sites\/113\/2019\/08\/Jewish-Heritage-Tours-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/113\/files\/sites\/113\/2019\/08\/Jewish-Heritage-Tours-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jewish Heritage Tours<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jewish Heritage Tours &#8212; prior to the creation of the state of Israel, Poland had the largest Jewish community in the world.\u00a0 The Nazi occupation of the country, and its campaign to annihilate this group resulted in Poland&#8217;s Jewish community going from over 3 million to just 3,000.\u00a0 The Nazis had set up a number of infamous concentration camps (including Auschwitz-Birkenau) that housed not only Polish Jews, but Jews from nearby Germany and elsewhere. \u00a0 Today Auschwitz is a museum where visitors can learn about what occurred there during its years of operation. Visitors can see displays and exhibits related to daily life in the camp and pay their respects to the many victims who were killed there.<\/p>\n<p>Many American Jews can trace their heritage to Poland &#8212; both Holocaust survivors, as well as those who migrated to the U.S. during the early 20th century, when the Jewish community was subject to persecution under Czarist Russian rule in both modern-day Poland, and nearby countries like Ukraine, Belarus and Russia itself).\u00a0 Nowadays, various travel outfits conduct tours of various Polish sites relevant to the country&#8217;s Jewish past &#8212; from World War II concentration camps to cities where this community thrived since the MIddle Ages.\u00a0 Those interested in such tours can go to the following companies:\u00a0 www.polandjewishheritagetours.com;\u00a0 www.polishgoldtravel.com;\u00a0 www.jewishtravel.pl; www.centrumtaubego.org.pl; www.jewish-guide.pl; www.jewishheritagetours.co.uk<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jewish Heritage Tours &#8212; prior to the creation of the state of Israel, Poland had the largest Jewish community in the world.\u00a0 The Nazi occupation of the country, and its campaign to annihilate this group resulted in Poland&#8217;s Jewish community going from over 3 million to just 3,000.\u00a0 The Nazis had set up a number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recreation","category-things-to-see-and-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.polandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}