Home 9 Tours for School Groups 9 R E Study Tours

R E Study Tours

Our study tours for RE groups presently cover two main areas – the life and work of Martin Luther and the horrors of the mid-twentieth century in Europe.  Details of both may be found by clicking on the links to the left of the screen.

We are constantly working to expand our offer; so if you have any other subject area for which a study trip would be helpful, please contact us.

Choose your tour below

Auschwitz

Thanks to the no-frills airlines, it is possible to visit Auschwitz and the nearby city of Kraków in just two or three days from most parts of Britain.

Our tours include a guided walking tour of the pre-War Jewish quarter, Kazimierz, including a visit to a working synagogue.  Then to the wartime ghetto, where you might visit Oskar Schindler’s factory.

 

On the following day, you will have an extended study tour of Auschwitz 1 concentration camp and of nearby Birkenau, with the remains of its gas-chambers and crematoria.

 

The nature of the guiding on these tours is to concentrate on facts.  Interpretation within the context of your studies and for your cohort of students is very much for you.

 

The Holocaust

Our extended coach tour brings the facts of the Nazis’ treatment of Europe’s Jews fully into focus.

You will visit Theresienstadt, a town in Czechoslovakia turned into a ghetto which could be shown off to the Red Cross, but really a holding camp before transportation to the east.

In Prague, you visit the pre-War Jewish quarter and gain some insight into the life and history of a thriving community.  On Hitler’s personal instructions, items were brought here from all across the Reich to become a museum for a people who no longer existed.

Then to Kraków and Auschwitz where we confront the ultimate horror of industrialised mass murder.

During the return journey, you visit Berlin and visit the lakeside villa which housed the Wannsee Conference, the Holocaust Memorial and documentation centre.  You may also visit the little known workshop in the very heart of the city where Otto Weidt was able to shelter some of his Jewish employees from deportation.

The Protestant Reformation

The life of Martin Luther was spent almost entirely within the modern German regions of Thuringia and Sachsen-Anhalt, which means that it is relatively easy to visit all the most important places in a short visit.

 

Eisleben Luther was born here in 1483 and died here in 1546.  The houses are now both museums of his life.
   
Erfurt

The Augustinian monastery and the university where he studied first liberal arts and later theology are must sees.  It is even possible to stay at the monastery in rather more comfort than Luther enjoyed.
   
Eisenach

There is a museum in the half-timbered house where Luther lived with relatives while attending school in the town, but even more important is the Wartburg Castle high above, where he translated the New Testament into German.  Our groups visit the room where he worked.
   
Wittenberg        

It was here, while working as professor of Theology at the university and as city priest that Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church

 

 

Although a coach tour is ideal, as it can include extra visits, we know that groups studying this topic tend to be smaller.  We can easily arrange for you to fly from a regional airport to and from Berlin and to travel within Germany either by minibus or by train.