Oswiecim Tours

Visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp on a day trip from Krakow. Learn about the Holocaust and the camp's history with a licensed guide. Fresh made Lunch Box for each guest included.

Make your own way to the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in your own vehicle or by public transport (bus or train). The journey from Krakow takes approximately 1.5 hours. When you arrive, meet your host who will give you the ticket and join you to the group. Skip the queue line with pre-booked entrance and pass through the airport security-style check before entering the Memorial. Inside the Auschwitz I museum, participate in a guided walking tour with a professional certified educator for approximately 1.45-2.00 hours. After that, take a free shuttle bus to the Auschwitz II (Birkenau) memorial for a 1-hour guided walking tour. Please be aware that the lunch break is only about 10 minutes, so it is advisable if you bring a packed lunch with you. After this, walk around on your own and spend time as long as you want inside Auschwitz-Birkenau II. Return to your hotel by bus, car or train yourself (transport is not included in the price). 

Book your direct entrance ticket to Auschwitz Museum and Birkenau • Listen stories for official Auschwitz memorial guide • Visit the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau camps

Funded by the Nazi party in 1940, Auschwitz-Birkenau became both a symbol of human suffering and a witness to physical and emotional exhaustion. Learn about history of the largest concentration camp from the Second World War with a professional licensed guide provided by the Auschwitz - Birkenau Museum. Our host will meet you at the entrance to the museum with pre-booked entrance ticket (in front of the restaurant which is located nearby Auschwitz I Entrance). You will pass a security check before entering the museum. The first part of visiting the museum takes approximately from 1 hour 20 minutes to 1 hour 50 minutes. Between the first and second part, there is a 10-15 minutes break (we recommend having packed lunch with you). After that, take the bus for the second part: Auschwitz II Birkenau, where you will spend around 60 minutes with the same guide.

This tour is perfect for people arriving to Auschwitz Museum by private or public transport. You will be met in Auschwitz I Museum by a local host who will accompany you into the museum where the official Auschwitz-Birkenau guide will be waiting for you to guide you through Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II–Birkenau in a group of up to 30 people. You will visit one of the most horrific places in human history Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, a symbol of genocide, terror and holocaust. The total duration of the tour is approximately 4 hours. You will spend 1,5-2 hours at Auschwitz and 60-90 minutes at Birkenau with short break in between.

Visit former Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II (Birkenau) where more than milion people were killed during the Second World War. Dear traveler, from March 2020 there is a new law in Auschwitz-Birkenau and booking with a lot of time in advance is the only way to be sure about going on this tour. Buying the ticket directly there is almost impossible. The given start time is approximate and can be changed - it will be confirmed 2 or 1 day before the tour. Private tours include 20 languages: English, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Romanian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Hungarian and Polish.

A visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau may be a shocking experience, but every person should see this concentration camp at least once in their lifetime and face the terrifying story of the Holocaust, as well as attempt to read human emotions inside the camp. This is not an ordinary tour. Entering Auschwitz-Birkenau you will get the impression that for several years hell was located in this very place. Hunger, medical experiments, terror, exhausting work, diseases, executions, gas chambers, Zyklon B - all these were experienced by the people who had been brought here. Visiting the camp brings back the memory of those events, the genocide and the Holocaust. The atrocity that took place here makes you shudder. It also gives a lot to think about. Auschwitz has not fallen from the sky - do not be indifferent. Highlights • Gate with "Arbeit macht frei" sign • Brick camp barracks • Wall of Death • Gas chamber and crematorium • International Monument dedicated to the Victims of the Camp

Entrance ticket provides fast lane priority entrance to the museum and attandace in professional guided tour in english in both Camps: Auschwitz I and Birkenau.

Wondering how to get to your hotel in Krakow or to Airport Balice from Auschwitz? It's easy! Book the transfer and a professional chauffeur driver will be waiting for you with in Auschwitz Museum (Restaurant by the Auschwitz Museum), 20 Wiezniow Oswiecimia street and will take you with all safety measures straight to your hotel or Balice Airport.

Explore the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Auschwitz-Birkenau and its memorials. View the remains of barracks, watchtowers, gas chambers, and fences at the concentration camp - professional guide sensitively portrays the horrors of the Holocaust as you tour the barracks. Auschwitz - Birkenau Museum reveals one of the most (in)famous periods of humankind history. Every year millions of tourists visit Auschwitz and walk through the gate with an inscription: “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work sets you free). It is said that this place is a symbol of what nationalism can lead to. Prisoners lived in horrible conditions with 700 kcal per day, forced to work over their strength. It is a must-see during Krakow visit.

Learn about an unforgettable chapter in history with a visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. After convenient hotel pick-up, travel to Oświęcim, Poland, the site of German concentration camps Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Deepen your knowledge of the Holocaust as you tour the grounds with a local guide.

Start the trip by picking up you from any place in Krakow. Head to Auschwitz and visit the most famous concentration camp. Travel in time to II World War and see what it brought. After Auschwitz the next stop is Salt Mine. Get under the ground and the Salt Mine. Then head back to Krakow.

We'll pick you up at the meeting point we previously agree on and once in Auschwitz you will meet your official tour guide for a group guided tour (they do not allow private tours inside). Actually Auschwitz, comprises three concentration camps in all its extension. The first was built for the purpose of housing political prisoners, but this was changing over time, as your private guide will explain in more detail. This complex is where the so-called “hunger cells” are located, where hundreds of prisoners died of starvation. Auschwitz II- Birkenau, is the second complex to which we will arrive after traveling a short distance, it is still today the site of the crematoriums and the gas chamber. This complex was created with the aim of being “the final solution to the Jewish problem”, and in reality it is a complex of death. Auschwitz III- Monowitz practically no longer exists, but it was a forced labor prison. At the end of the tour, your private driver will take you back to Krakow.

Start the trip by picking up you from any place in Krakow. Head to Auschwitz and visit the most famous concentration camp. Travel in time to II World War and see what it brought. After Auschwitz the next stop is Salt Mine. Get under the ground and the Salt Mine. Then head back to Krakow.

Start the trip by picking up you from any place in Krakow. Head to Auschwitz and visit the most famous concentration camp. Travel in time to II World War and see what it brought. After Auschwitz the next stop is Salt Mine. Get under the ground and the Salt Mine. Then head back to Krakow.

Start the trip by picking up you from any place in Krakow. Head to Auschwitz and visit the most famous concentration camp. Travel in time to II World War and see what it brought. After Auschwitz the next stop is Salt Mine. Get under the ground and the Salt Mine. Then head back to Krakow.