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MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU FORMER GERMAN NAZI
CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP

Visiting Memorial

Visiting Memorial
Visiting Memorial

It is necessary to assign approx. 1.5 h for the stay in Auschwitz and at least the same amount of time for visiting Auschwitz II-Birkenau. The visitors see the areas and some of the facilities at the former camps of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II – Birkenau. Some buildings are excluded from visiting (including the co-called reserve blocks, administration and various museum sections). In the cinema hall of the Visitors Service Centre (at the grounds of former Auschwitz I), it is possible to watch (against payment) a 17-minute documentary film presenting the first moments after liberation of the camp.

TYPES OF VISITS
Tourists arriving in groups are required to hire a tour guide. This ensures proper acquaintance with the history and the area of the former camp, as well as efficient seeing of all areas. Hiring a tour guide is paid. Only the Museum’s guides are authorized to lead tours. The guides give tours in the following languages: English, Croatian, Czech, French, Hebrew, Spanish, Japanese, German, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovakian, Swedish, Hungarian and Italian. Visitors can choose the following types of visiting:

  1. general visit
  2. one-day study visit
  3. two-day study visit
  • General visit (time of visit: approx. 3.5 h):
    Visit at the permanent exhibition and objects in the area of mother camp Auschwitz I. Visit at the most important post-camp objects in Auschwitz II – Birkenau: prisoners’ barracks, unloading platform, ruins of gas chambers and crematoria II or III.
  • One-day study visit (time of visit: approx. 6h):
    Visit at Auschwitz I extended onto selected national exhibitions and Auschwitz II – Birkenau supplemented with the so-called Sauna building and ruins of gas chambers and crematoria IV and V.
  • One-day or two-day study visit (time of visit: approx. 8h):
    On the first day, visit at the permanent exhibition and selected national exhibitions and objects in the area of Auschwitz I; on the second day, visit at the entire area of Auschwitz II – Birkenau along with ruins of gas chambers and crematoria II–V, living barracks, sanitary barracks and the so-called Sauna building.