You must get a ticket to join the 3. Headsets are provided so you can hear your tour guide, even when you are at some distance from them. Apart from at certain times in the day, it is not necessary to join the guided tour. This is the best way for those who want to explore the museum at their own pace. If you decide not to join the guided tour make sure you buy the guide book. It marks the route clearly and explains the importance of each area you visit however, even if you visit Auschwitz at a time when the entry is free.
You still need a free ticket to enter. Read More : Can you visit Auschwitz today? You can book your ticket online three months in advance. All tickets are timed. The above guidelines do not apply for Auschwitz-II Birkenau concentration camp which is always free to visit without a ticket. The easiest option is obviously booking an organized tour to visit Auschwitz from Krakow. By doing so your transportation and tickets will be taken care of and all you have to do is turn up at your departure location at the right time.
Besides this, your tour operator will take care of your timed Auschwitz entrance tickets as well, and you do not have to worry about reserving your ticket in advance. Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp is a place you must visit with a guide. As these guided tours are extremely informative and are generally led by guides who have a certain connection with these camps.
Besides all the benefits of a group tour, you will have the added benefit of a private driver who will pick you up straight from your hotel. A private tour is more flexible in terms of its duration and gives you more flexibility in terms of sightseeing as well as snack breaks. If you happen to be travelling with a bigger family or a group of friends a private tour will not be more expensive than a group tour. You will have two options: Hire a private driver transport only to Auschwitz and back or hire a private driver along with a guided tour.
A private tour also includes pre-booked tickets. A tour at Auschwitz — Birkenau lasts for under 4 hours. There are multiple tours offered during the day in several languages such as English, Polish, German, Italian, French, Czech, and Slovak. This ensures you get the time slot you want, and in the language of your preference.
But during peak season it may be difficult to book tickets online or you may not get your preferred time slot and language of your preference.
They were also forced to work in coal mines, in stone quarries, in fisheries, and especially in armaments industries such as the SS-owned German Equipment Works established in Periodically, prisoners underwent selection. If the SS judged them too weak or sick to continue working, they were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and killed. Prisoners selected for forced labor were registered and tattooed with identification numbers on their left arms in Auschwitz I.
They were then assigned to forced labor at the main camp or elsewhere in the complex, including the subcamps. In mid-January , as Soviet forces approached the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, the SS began evacuating Auschwitz and its subcamps.
SS units forced nearly 60, prisoners to march west from the Auschwitz camp system. Thousands had been killed in the camps in the days before these death marches began. Tens of thousands of prisoners, mostly Jews, were forced to march either northwest for 55 kilometers approximately 30 miles to Gliwice Gleiwitz or due west for 63 kilometers approximately 35 miles to Wodzislaw Loslau in the western part of Upper Silesia.
Those forced to march northwest were joined by prisoners from subcamps in East Upper Silesia, such as Bismarckhuette, Althammer, and Hindenburg. Those forced to march due west were joined by inmates from the subcamps to the south of Auschwitz, such as Jawischowitz, Tschechowitz, and Golleschau.
SS guards shot anyone who fell behind or could not continue. Prisoners also suffered from the cold weather, starvation, and exposure on these marches. At least 3, prisoners died on route to Gliwice alone. Possibly as many as 15, prisoners died during the evacuation marches from Auschwitz and the subcamps.
The rail journey lasted for days. Without food, water, shelter, or blankets, many prisoners did not survive the transport. In late January , SS and police officials forced 4, prisoners to evacuate Blechhammer on foot. Blechhammer was a subcamp of Auschwitz-Monowitz. The SS murdered about prisoners during the march to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. SS officials also killed as many as prisoners left behind in Blechhammer as a result of illness or unsuccessful attempts to hide.
After a brief delay, the SS transported around 3, Blechhammer prisoners from Gross-Rosen to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. On January 27, , the Soviet army entered Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Monowitz and liberated more than six thousand prisoners, most of whom were ill and dying.
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Because of a large number of visitors guides should be reserved at least two months before a planned visit. Read more In order to take in the grounds and exhibitions in a suitable way, visitors should set aside a minimum of about 90 minutes for the Auschwitz site and the same amount of time for Auschwitz II-Birkenau. It is essential to visit both parts of the camp, Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau, in order to acquire a proper sense of the place that has become the symbol of the Holocaust of the European Jews as well as Nazi crimes againt Poles, Romas and other groups.
The grounds and most of the buildings at the sites of the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau sites are open to visitors. Some buildings are not accessible to visitors including the blocks reserved for the Museum administration and its departments. Please familiarize yourself with " the rules for visiting ". The Museum is open all year long, seven days a week, except January 1, December 25, and Easter Sunday. A visitor may stay on the site of the Museum 90 minutes after the last entrance hour i.
The Virtual Tour of the Auschwitz Memorial includes over high-quality panoramic photographs. See the Virtual Tour. Block 2 and 3 are ones of so-called "reserve blocks" of the Museum, maintained and presented in their original condition.
Auschwitz I was placed by Germans in abandoned barracks used before by Polish and Austrian army, as a place for transient workers. Buildings was approved in for the purpose of housing political prisoners. Their foundations were laid by Jewish residents of Oswiecim. Between and , residents of the surrounding districts were expelled from the area and surrounding villages.
The Nazis plan was to build there a modern residential area for Germans which would include playing fields and schools. Not all of the plans went forward, however several hundred apartments were built and around Germans were relocated to Oswiecim. Auschwitz II is located on the eastern side of Oswiecim, to the left of Auschwitz I and the nearest big city to them is Krakow.
Auschwitz II is also called Auschwitz-Birkenau , cause village Brzezinka 3 kilometers further was chosen as a place, where four crematories, a reception building and hundreds of buildings were built. According to plans, each barrack was designed to house prisoners. This was later changed to It expanded beyond the plans, becoming the largest one — the entire camp spread over hectares!
You can see that this was a really large area. Here you can find full map. The museum can be visited on all days of the year, except January 1, December 25 and the first day of Easter. Here you can find opening hours.
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