Commemorating the Warsaw Uprising

As part of its programme of guided Remembrance Tours, Poppy Travel, the travel arm of the Royal British Legion, this year commemorates the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising with a 5-day guided tour to Poland from 31st August – 4th September 2009.

Poppy Travel’s anniversary tour will visit Warsaw and Krakow, as well as the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. Led by Patrick Gale, an experienced military guide and an expert on concentration camps, the tour will also be accompanied by a senior Royal British Legion representative and – as with all Poppy Travel’s Remembrance Tours - also by a Standard Bearer and a medic.

In Warsaw the tour will take in the Uprising Museum, the monument of the Underground Polish nation and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as well as the opportunity to experience the completely rebuilt Old Town – now back to its pre-War state – and to meet a local Uprising veteran (subject to their good health).

The tour then travels on to the beautiful UNESCO World Heritage Site of Krakow, once seat of Polish kings, and with over 1000 years of history. Whilst in Krakow the group will visit the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery, as well as have an afternoon’s visit to the infamous concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau (Auschwitz II), where over 1.1 million Jews and other victims of Nazi persecution died.

With prices from £789 per person sharing on a bed and breakfast basis and flights from London, the tour represents an opportunity to experience a truly significant moment in history, and one that should never be forgotten.

To find out more or make a booking, visit poppytravel.org.uk.