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July 9-16, 2025

Program Highlights

Budapest

  • tour the Dohany Synagague, the Danube Shoe Memorial, the Holocaust Museum, and the city with expert guides
  • meet Holocaust survivors from the Budapest Jewish community
  • attend a Shabbat service
  • learn about Communism in Hungary and Hungarian life since the fall of Communism
  • learn how the Holocaust is taught in different countries from experts in those countries. 

Enroute to Belgrade

  • we will stop in Subotica to visit their newly renovated synagogue, one of the finest surviving pieces of religious architecture in the art nouveau style.

Belgrade

  • walk in the footsteps of the Kalef family, Centropa interviewees
  • tour Jewish Belgrade
  • visit Staro Sajmiste, a former fairground turned into a concentration camp during the German occupation
  • explore Serbia’s bustling capital
  • visit the Jewish cemetery,
  • learn more about contemporary Jewish life in Belgrade.

Supporters

Jack Buncher Foundation
Milton A. and Roslyn Z. Wolf Family Foundation
Cleveland
The Holocaust Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ
Whippany
The Florida Holocaust Museum
St. Petersburg
South Carolina Council on the Holocaust
Columbia

Partners