Highlights
- Morning or afternoon trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum from Krakow
- Guided walk through Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp
- Birkenaus Martyrdom Museum
- Documentary screening onboard the coach
- Expert English-speaking guide
- Pickup and drop off from selected Krakow hotels
Recent Photos of this Tour
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Stop!Warning sign for the electric fence - sometimes prisoners would commit suicide and run into the fencePhoto by: Elisa GUSA, 07 2010 -
AuschwitzWork Makes You FreePhoto by: Anthony C12 2012 -
PossessionsSeeing the piles of boots and other possessions on display certainly helps quantify the loss of life.Photo by: Tracy R12 2012 -
Auschwitz-BirkenauAuschwitz-BirkenauPhoto by: Bdette06 2012 -
DSC06033Bartlett Family from Central Queensland Australia, at Auschiwitz, December 21st, 2011.Photo by: Peter B12 2011 -
Humbling indeedPray for peace and prosperity of the human race.Photo by: VijayIndia, 07 2011 -
Paying respects to the ...Auschwitz 2 is a standing testimony to the perverted belief system of superiority of races.Photo by: VijayIndia, 07 2011 -
DSC01517gate entrance at auschwitsPhoto by: ian w06 2011 -
Plaque at Auschwitz MuseumSo profound, I think all people should visit here once in their lifetime, to make sure this never happens again.Photo by: Fay N01 2011 -
TributePlaque at BirkenauPhoto by: Fay N01 2011 -
Entrance to AuschwitzVisiting the Museum with my family - i do not think it is appropriate to have myself or my family in the photosPhoto by: Fay N01 2011 -
Auschwitz IA gray day was somehow ideal for the visit to this place.Photo by: Thomas M11 2010 -
BirkenauLooking at the main gate from inside the compound. This view should be familiar to everyone.Photo by: Thomas M11 2010 -
Party, Krakow 2010 110This was at Birkanau, tried to let the picture tell the storyPhoto by: David R10 2010 -
Krakow Sept 2010 197Entrance to Auchwitz IIPhoto by: Alan S09 2010 -
Birkenau Train TracksThe view of the guard towerPhoto by: Katherine GUnited Kingdom, 08 2010 -
Death WallWhere prisoners would stand, awaiting to be shot.Photo by: Katherine GUnited Kingdom, 08 2010 -
The CampView of the blocks.Photo by: Katherine GUnited Kingdom, 08 2010 -
Entrance Gate to AuschwitzWork Makes One Free - false hope for the prisonersPhoto by: Elisa GUSA, 07 2010 -
Side View of AuschwitzBuilding with all the chimneys was actually a kitchen...Photo by: Elisa GUSA, 07 2010 -
Useful Information
Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum Half-Day Trip from Krakow
Auschwitz-Birkenau is the best-known cemetery and place of genocide in the world. Started in 1940 as a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners, in 1942 the camp became a center for the extermination of European Jews. During the years 1940 to 1945, approximately 1.5 million people died there. The majority of the camp's victims were Jews, along with Poles, Gypsies, Russian POWs and members of other nationalities.
Your tour of this haunting site begins onboard the coach with a 15-minute documentary about the liberation of the camp. On arrival at the museum, your guide will show you the exhibitions in some of the surviving prison blocks, the gas chamber and the crematorium.
After a short break, the tour continues to Birkenau, where the view from the watchtower above the entrance gate reveals the forbidding expanse of the biggest Nazi concentration camp built during the Holocaust. A Martyrdom Museum was set up here in 1947, and in 1979 Auschwitz-Birkenau was added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage sites.
Reviewed by Lynnanne C, May 2013
Fantastic, albeit for terrible reasons. Very moving, everybody should bear witness to this atrocity. It is all of our responsibility to ensure this type of thing is never allowed to happen again.
Reviewed by Terence F, April 2013
The trip was even more informative than I had hoped.. Not only did the history of the camps explained fully but done with respect to the victims. The guide was brilliant and certainly very good.
