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Take a private walking tour with a licensed tour guide and visit the Jewish Memorial places of Paris. Learn all about their history, and perseverance in this 7-hour excursion.
Includes visits to the Memorial of the Martyrs of Deportation, Shoah Memorial Museum, the Marais neighborhood, and former internment camp Drancy.
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Duration: 7 to 8 hours
Starts: Paris, France
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Take a private walking tour with a licensed tour guide and visit the Jewish Memorial places of Paris. Learn all about their history, and perseverance in this 7-hour excursion.
Includes visits to the Memorial of the Martyrs of Deportation, Shoah Memorial Museum, the Marais neighborhood, and former internment camp Drancy.
Itinerary
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Pass By: Le Pont de Bir-Hakeim, Stations de métro Passy et Bir-Hakeim, Paris France
Meeting point: 8:30 a.m. in Metro Station BIR HAKEIM (line 6) Exit 1
Stop At: Monument commemoratif de la rafle du Vel’d’Hiv, Promenade du Quai de Grenelle Place des Martyrs-Juifs-du-Vélodrome-d’Hiver, 75015 Paris France
You will first visit the area of the VEL D’HIV in memory of the 25,000 Jews who were held captive in this RACING ARENA (now destroyed) before their deportation to AUSCHWITZ and BIRKENAU.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Memorial De La Shoah, 17 rue Geoffroy L Asnier, 75004 Paris France
Then visit the SHOAH MEMORIAL MUSEUM where the WALL OF NAMES lists the 75,000 Jewish people deported and where the WALL OF THE RIGHTEOUS reveals the names of the people who rescued Jews in France during WWII.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Jewish quarter, 71 rue du Temple Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, 75003 Paris France
Next, you will visit the OLD JEWISH QUARTER of Paris, known as the MARAIS or the PLETZEL. Optional Falafel lunch in the MARAIS/lunch at leisure.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Memorial de la Shoah Drancy, 110-112, avenue Jean-Jaures, 93700 Drancy France
In the afternoon you will go to the former Internment Camp of DRANCY, now a French National Monument where you will see the SHOAH MEMORIAL SCULPTURE by Schlomo Selinger.
Duration: 2 hours
Pass By: Châtelet, 75001 Paris, France
Return to Paris, end of the tour