Auschwitz tours
Leave Krakow for a day to visit the historic monuments Auschwitz and Birkenau. Auschwitz was one of the largest concentration camps built by...
8 hours
Visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during this early morning guided tour in English. Choosing an early morning tour gives you a unique opport...
7 hours
Visit two of Poland’s most popular attractions in one day: Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Wieliczka Salt Mine. This fully organized day trip not...
12 hours
Visit one of the historically most significant places in Europe – the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum near Krakow. The UNESCO listed memorial is t...
7 hours
Visit Auschwitz, formerly the largest German concentration camp, located on the outskirts of the Polish town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz). Thanks...
7 hours
Every year, millions of visitors from around the world walk through the gate bearing a fallacious inscription: ‘Arbeit macht frei’. Walking ...
7 hours 30 minutes
To make the most out of your visit to Krakow, take advantage of the combined tour to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Oskar Schindler Factory. The tou...
8 hours 30 minutes
This Auschwitz Birkenau Museum & Memorial Tour is a 7.5-hour tour that includes visiting the memorial museum at Auschwitz Birkenau, kept in ...
7 hours 30 minutes
Auschwitz has become the main symbol of the Holocaust. It was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the T...
18 hours
See the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau and attend the fully guided tour at Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II Birkenau. During your tour, you will ...
3 hours 30 minutes
The grim Auschwitz Birkenau will forever be remembered as a place of death for millions of innocent people, including women, children, and m...
7 hours 30 minutes
Discover Krakow's history on this full-day tour to Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum and the Wieliczka Salt Mine. First, you will be ta...
11 hours
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The inside story
The Auschwitz-Birkenau complex has left its inglorious mark on human history. A symbol of the Holocaust, during its five years of operation over a million Jews, along with Poles, Romani and other groups, were systematically killed by German Occupiers in WWII. Confronting and emotionally charged, a visit to the complex is an essential part of the human experience.
Composed of two sections, Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau, together they convey the magnitude of the compound. Auschwitz I was the main site opened in 1940 with the now infamous sign on its gate Arbeit macht frei (‘Work sets you free’). It held the first camps, the offices of the SS and was where criminal medical experiments and the first gassings using Zyklon B took place. Auschwitz II-Birkenau came later and for all intents and purposes became an extermination camp. The remains of its gas chambers and crematorium, along with primitive barracks, can still be seen.
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