Insightful Guided Tours of the Holocaust

There are few guided tours of Europe more poignant than a tour of the major sites of the Holocaustthe extermination of
millions of people in the 1930s and 1940s. Tours such as this actually exist for the traveler who wants to see a side of
European contemporary history that is rarely available to the average traveler.

Guided tours involving Holocaust sites often begin in Amsterdam as many flights from the US end up there first. In
Amsterdam, you can visit the historic Anne Frank house that has been turned into a museum of related artifacts. You can
also visit the Corrie Ten Boom House, where a Dutch family hid many refugees from german rule. Corrie Ten Boom was featured
in the book she wrote, The Hiding Place, which was eventually turned into a movie.

The next logical stop on your tour is the Westerbork Transit Camp and later on, the Bergen-Belsen Concentration camp.
Anne Frank died of