Auschwitz-Birkenau Guided Tour

ATOL Protected
All of our holidays that include flights are protected by the ATOL scheme from the moment you book. So if one of our suppliers fails, you’ll get your money back. If you’re left stranded abroad, a flight home will be arranged at no extra cost. Our ATOL number is 11806
ABTA Protected
As proud ABTA members we deliver the highest standards when it comes to our holidays. So if you book with us you’re guaranteed the best service. Our ABTA number is P8283, Y6720.
Secure trust account
Unlike many other travel companies we operate on a trust account model. Once we’ve paid the airline for your flights, the rest of your money is held in a trust account. We do not have access to this directly and can only withdraw funds when you are back home from holiday

Pay your respects to the victims of Nazi persecution as you visit World War Two’s largest concentration camps on the Auschwitz-Birkenau Guided Tour. After arriving at the museum, you’ll step through the original entrance gate before finding out more about the terrible events that unfolded from 1940 to 1945.

Having opened to the public in 1955, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is now dedicated to more than one million people who died at this site during the Holocaust.

To go on a tour of the site, you’ll need to book online at visit.auschwitz.org. Make sure you plan ahead as tours can book up months in advance, especially on weekends. To see Auschwitz-Birkenau, you can choose between four different tours, the general tour, a one or two day study tour, or the individual tour. The general tour lasts for three and a half hours as you explore the permanent exhibitions and main camp buildings along with the prisoner barracks, ruined gas chambers and crematoria at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. To travel between the two camps, there’s a free shuttle bus.

At the main Auschwitz site, you’ll browse artefacts including photographs, seized possessions, prisoner clothes and bunk-beds. The museum is very solemn and moving as it takes you through original and reconstructed rooms, remembering the people who were captured during the war.

Before visiting it’s worth knowing there’s a strict policy on backpacks and handbags, so make sure your bag measures no more than 30 x 20 x 10cm. Although photography’s allowed, don’t use your flash and be respectful around sensitive displays. Some areas of the museum ban photos altogether, so keep an eye out for signs.

More Things To Do ideas

Find more Things To Do in Krakow: Jewish District Krakow | Market Square Krakow | Wieliczka Salt Mine | Wawel Castle