Poland is becoming a booming destination for the school trips abroad. A visit to this country is a perfect lesson of the 20th history of Europe and might be the part of the school project or the teachers training. Most of the school trips abroad organized to Poland focus on the places connected with the World War II and Holocaust: they visit the Nazi extermination camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau or Treblinka, or Krakow to follow the traces of Oskar Schindler. They also come to learn about the Jewish culture and the heritage, as Poland was the shelter for the largest Jewish community in Europe before 1939. Lots of teachers planning the schools trips abroad choose Poland also as the best place to study the history of the Cold War: 4 days trip to Berlin combined with a visit the famous communist district Nowa Huta in Krakow, Gdansk – the city of the Solidarity or Warsaw is a perfect experience of the way Eastern Europe used to be before 1989. Poland became the popular destination for the school trips abroad also because of its religious heritage – the Route of the most famous Pope John Paul II attracts the school pilgrimages from all over the world.
