Regular Tour to Auschwitz and Birkenau from Krakow

Regular Tour to Auschwitz and Birkenau from Krakow

Join our tour to Auschwitz & Birkenau and pay your respects to the Victims of Holocaust .It takes 1,5 hour to get there from Krakow. When you reach Auschwitz you will begin 3,5 hours guided tour inside the concentration camp. The visit includes two sections of the camp: Auschwitz I ( mostly for political prisoners) and the immense concentration and death camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau (mostly for Jews and gypsies). In the first part of the camp You will spend around 2 hours and around 1 hour in the second part.
- learn more about holocaust and see one of the most terrifying places in the World.
- pay your respects to the Victims of Holocaust
- discover the horrors of this World Heritage Site

We offer:
- every day guided tours in english
- hotel pick up at approx 9:30 - 9:45 a.m.
- high quality services

The entire trip lasts approximately 7 hours.

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau, ul. Wiezniow Oswiecimia 20 Entrance to the Museum is located at Stanisławy Leszczyńskiej Str. no. 11, Oswiecim 32-603 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.

Duration: 3 hours