Auschwitz - Birkenau Museum - UNESCO World Heritage Site Tour from Krakow

Auschwitz-Birkenau is the most well known cemetery in the world and place of genocide. Started in 1940 as a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners in 1942, it became the center for extermination of European Jews.

In the years 1940-45 the Nazis killed about 1.5 million people there, mainly Jews as well as Poles, Gypsies, Russian POW's and members of other nationalities.

Your tour begins with a 15 minute documentary black and white film screening aboard the bus about the liberation of the camp, then a museum 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 you go up to the watchtower above the entrance gate to see the view of the biggest Nazi Concentration Camp. A Martyrdom Museum was set up here in 1947 and in 1979, UNESCO included Auschwitz-Birkenau in its list of World Heritage sites.

 

Schedule Details Departs:

Daily

Unavailable Dates:

• March 23 (Easter Sunday)
• May 01 (Labour Day)

Departure Point: Tour departs from Hotel Cracovia in Krakow. Departure Time: Morning Departure

• First hotel pick-up is between 8:30am and last hotel pick-up at 9:20am

Afternoon Departure

• First hotel pick-up is between 2:00pm and last hotel pick-up at 3:15pm

Return details: Tour drops off at selected Krakow hotels. You will be advised on the day the closest drop off point to your hotel. Hotel Pickup: Hotel pick up is available from all centrally located Krakow hotels. Please advise your full hotel name and address at time of booking. If no hotel pick up is available, the tour operator will advise the most convenient pick up location upon reconfirming your booking 24 hours prior to travel. Contact details provided on confirmation voucher.

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