Crystal Cruises this summer has expanded its Jewish Heritage programs in Northern Europe. The luxury line has set five excursions, including a new tour in Berlin that goes to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Orianenburg, which served as a prototype for all the camps that followed. These excursions are also available in Dublin, St. Petersburg and Stockholm aboard virtually all of Crystal Symphony’s Northern Europe itineraries from June through August. The tours also feature in-depth visits to Jewish Old Towns, museums, synagogues and Jewish families. From the port of Warnemunde, passengers can choose the new “Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp & Berlin Highlights” tour, which visits the camp that housed political prisoners and dissidents beginning in the 1930s, where thousands of prisoners perished from starvation. “Echoes of the Past: Berlin’s Jewish History” visits the Jewish Old Quarter and the New Synagogue, whose stone was laid in 1988, exactly 50 years after the “Night of Broken Glass.”
“The Jewish Highlights of St. Petersburg” travels to the Great Choral Synagogue, the second largest in Europe, and includes a concert performed by the synagogue’s cantor. Passengers also visit a local family active in the Jewish community. “Jewish Stockholm” passes through the walls of the 19th-century, 1,000-seat Great Synagogue, which has a memorial wall to 8,500 victims of Jewish relatives residing in Sweden, and continues on to one of the few the Jewish museums in Scandinavia. “Historic Jewish Dublin” includes a visit to the Irish Jewish Museum, formerly an old synagogue, which was officially opened by President Chaim Herzog of Israel, who was raised in Dublin. The excursion also visits Herzog’s former home and site of the first Jewish Day School. The Jewish Heritage Crystal Adventures are priced from $75 to $421 per person and are available aboard Crystal Symphony’s seven Northern Europe itineraries, with fares starting at $3,395.
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