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Experience a self guided tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum with a entry ticket. Get the convenience of round-trip transportation directly from your meeting point in Krakow.

Highlights

• Visit Auschwitz-Birkenau with entry ticket and transport according to your needs
• Take an authorized paper guide on a tour of the former concentration camps
• See the original buildings and the haunting personal artifacts left behind
• Explore the atrocities and dark history of the Holocaust during World War II
• Commemorate the camp’s victims and hear stories of survival

Description

Visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum with the convenience of a entrance ticket and roundtrip transfer from meeting point at Krakow - Wielopole 2 (Kiss and Ride bus stop). See original buildings and artifacts on a poignant and informative tour with a official guide book. After a 1-hour and 15-minute journey, arrive at the Auschwitz I Museum and embark on a walking tour with self-guided tour where you will have use of a guide book and map in your chosen language. Explore the remains of the Nazi camp's barracks, watchtowers, and crematoriums. Gate After 10 min walk form reception building you get to the gate on the right. Exit is on the left. After the gate, pay attention to the camp orchestra and head towards the exhibition. Block 4 on the right Jews during selection, you visit this place later on (barrack) on the left at the ramp end the biggest gas chambers (chimneys), you see a model and ruins of them Extermination exhibition consists of rooms: Deportations, human ashes Different people sent to the camp Photographs of Birkenau in 1944. (first floor) A gas chamber model A few tons of human hair Block 5 Luggage confiscated from the deportees: eyeglasses, Jewish prayer shawls, belongings of people with disabilities, metal pots, (first floor) shoes and suitcases. Gas Chamber I Next to the gallow for R. Höss you enter Gas Chamber and Crematorium I (more around). Pay attention to the roof gaps for Zyklon B Auschwitz exit After the gas chamber go right, hand over the headset, walk back to the main parking lot and proceed to Birkenau With the help of the provided map, learn about the ghastly Nazi crimes committed in the camps and hear stories of the everyday lives of the prisoners. Take advantage of the freedom of the tour at your own pace and path of your choice. Next, continue the walking tour at the Auschwitz-Birkenau II Memorial. Witness gas chambers and the remains of the railway which transported prisoners to the camps. After a break, you meet your guide and walk through the gate (view from tower). You learn when and how this part of Auschwitz was built. In the middle of the ramp, you learn about the conditions of deportation and selections of Jews. Then, walk on towards the distant trees. Gas chamber ruins At the ramp end, between ruins of the biggest gas chambers and crematoriums, is a post-communist memorial to Auschwitz victims. Brick barracks On the way back from the ruins you can see the living and sanitary conditions in brick barracks. Some are special – virtual tour: Block for children Death Block yard In the last row of smaller brick barracks you can enter the washroom and see the toilets. Commemorate the camp’s victims and discover stories of survival on the memorial site. Benefit from the help of a tour assistant who will be at your disposal from pickup to drop off. Afterward, get a bit of time to explore on your own before returning to Krakow City Center - Radisson Blue Straszewskiego 17.

Includes

Brochure in your language with the route and detailed description Entry ticket to Auschwitz I Entry ticket to Auschwitz II - Birkenau Assistance throughout the whole trip Shared roundtrip transportation by air-conditioned bus from Kraków

Important Information

• The pickup time may change (possible start between 4:00 AM and 1:30 PM), so please consider this in your plans. In exceptional circumstances, the departure time may be earlier or later. Entry passes for individual visitors without educators are free and provided by Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, according to official regulations of the Museum Entry tickets are not booked by the tour operator in advance. The tickets are collected individually before the tour with the help of the tour leader. The pace and duration of the tours are determined by the memorial's visitor service. For this reason, the duration of the trip should be treated as approximate. The offer is written in English, and the organizer is not responsible for any inaccuracies in translation into another language. The tour begins at a specific meeting point in Krakow. For organizational reasons, it is not possible to reach the sightseeing location independently.

Easy cancellation

Cancel up to 24 hours in advance for a full refund