Auschwitz Birkenau Guided Tour with Ticket Hotel Pickup Small Van

Overview

What you’ll do

Whole event takes around 7 hours. You will be picked up directly from your accommodation place in between 07:00am and 10:00am(pick up time will be confirmed). Meeting will took place either at the front-desk of a hotel or outside near an entry to apartments. Just after collecting all participants you will reach Auschwitz in about 1 hour 15 minutes.

English guided tour in Auschwitz and Birkenau Museum is provided by a licensed museum guide . (Headphones are included) Visiting the camps takes around 3,5 hours and consists of sightseeing of two Nazi camps & Auschwitz and Birkenau.

After a short break of up to 15 minutes following the first camp visit, we will take you to the second part of the tour – Birkenau (Auschwitz II), located just a few minutes away. This was the largest section of the Nazi concentration and extermination complex, created with the intention of carrying out the mass extermination of European Jews.

Your guide will continue the moving tour through Brzezinka (Birkenau), built in 1941 under the orders of Heinrich Himmler, commander of the SS. The camp was designed to imprison up to 90,000 people under horrific and inhumane conditions.

During the visit, you will learn about the tragic stories of prisoners, brutal selections upon arrival, and inhuman medical experiments conducted by Nazi doctors, including Josef Mengele. The tour also covers the liberation of Auschwitz by soldiers of the 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front on January 27, 1945 – a moment that marked the end of unimaginable suffering for the remaining prisoners.

After tour you will be taken back to Krakow. Either to your accommodation place or any other destination within the city.