Regular Tour to Auschwitz and Birkenau from Katowice

Regular Tour to Auschwitz and Birkenau from Katowice

Regular group tour is the most convenient way and the cheapest way of visiting Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camp during one day from Katowice. It is one of those places in the world that everybody should visit once in a lifetime to pay respect to the victims of holocaust and World War 2.

Itinerary:

-morning meeting with our English speaking assistant at the entrance to Hotel Monopol in the centre of Katowice
-comfortable ride with air-conditioned mini-van or mini-bus and professional English speaking driver which takes up to 1 hour and 15 minutes
-skip the line entrance to Auschwitz and Birkenau Museum
-group sightseeing with local English speaking guide for up to 3,5 hours
-drive back to Katowice with the same vehicle and driver
-drop off by Hotel Monopol in Katowice

Itinerary
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Stop At: Oswiecim, Poland

The concentration camp in Auschwitz was established by German Nazis on the outskirts of the town Oswiecim in 1940. After the war, the camp was turned into museum displaying evidence of the genocide. Block no. 11, known as the Death Block, was where people were murdered also at the “Wall of Death”. Outside the camp, there is a gas chamber, where 70,000 people were killed in 1940-1943. A film made after the liberation of the camp is shown in various language version in the museum. In 1941, 3 kilometres from Oswiecim, in the former village of Brzezinka, the German Nazis established a new camp called Auschwitz II Birkenau. In 1942-1945, approx. 1.5 million people lived and died here. Most of them (90%) were Jews, others were Poles, Gypsies, Russians and prisoners from 28 countries of Europe, people of all nationalities and political and religious persuasions. Since 1944, transports of prisoners from all over the continent entered directly through the “Gate of Death”. In 1979, Auschwitz – Birkenau Concentration Campwas listed a UNESCO World Culture and National Heritage Site.

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Duration: 3 hours