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The Museum is located on the outskirts of the town of Oświęcim, on provincial road No. 933. The tour starts at the former Auschwitz I camp. The Visitor Services Center is located at Więźniów Oświęcimia 55 Street. We suggest driving into this street from Legionów Street (DW 933).

The Museum is located approximately 1,500 meters from the railway station. Near the station, there is a multi-storey Park & Ride parking available.

Between April and October it is possible to reach the Museum by a special "M" line connecting the station and P&R with the main entrance to the Museum. The ride takes five minutes and the line runs daily between 9am-4pm. Tickers are available in ticket machines.

Buses of the Lajkonik company arrive directly at the Museum car park from Kraków (timetable: to the Museum | back to Kraków ) 

There are also bus and minibus stops near the Museum, with service from Kraków and Katowice. There are also two international airports within about 50 kilometers of Oświęcim: Kraków-Balice and Katowice-Pyrzowice.

Visitors coming to Oświęcim can find more information at the tourist information website: www.it.oswiecim.pl

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Communication between former Auschwitz I and Birkenau concentration camps

Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau are situated 3,5 km from each other.

There are paid car parks available near both former concentration camps. The visit starts at the former Auschwitz I site.

The museum bus shuttles from one part of the Memorial to another. Departures from the former Auschwitz I concentration camp: between April - October every 10 minutes, between November - March every 20 minutes. No bus fare is required. 

Taxi services are provided by HALO TAXI company. You can find a taxi at the taxi rank in front of the Museum entrance. You can also call a taxi using the following phone number: +48 32 19 194.

The three kilometre distance between the former concentration camps can be covered by foot (through streets: Więźniów Oświęcimia, Jaracza, Leszczyńskiej and Męczeństwa Narodów), crossing the by-camp premises, where during the occupation were German industrial plants and workshops, warehouses, offices and technical backrooms, in which the prisoners would work and die. There are preserved remains of a few railway sidings and ramps [ Alte Judenrampe ], where the trains with deportees would stop and the members of the SS would make the selections.

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Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial & Museum

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Auschwitz-Birkenau is synonymous with the Holocaust. More than a million Jews, and many Poles and Roma, were murdered here by German Nazis during WWII. Both sections of the camp – Auschwitz I and the much larger outlying Birkenau (Auschwitz II) – have been preserved and are open to visitors. It's essential to visit both to appreciate the extent and horror of the place.

From April to October it’s compulsory to join a tour if you arrive between 10am and 3pm.

Book well ahead either online or by phone, or turn up early (before 9.30am). English-language tours leave at numerous times throughout the day, generally most frequently between 10am and 1.30pm, when they operate half-hourly. Most tours include a short documentary film about the liberation of the camp by Soviet troops in January 1945 (not recommended for children under 14).

The museum’s visitor centre is at the entrance to the Auschwitz I site. Photography and filming are permitted throughout the camp without the use of a flash or tripod. There’s a self-service snack bar by the entrance as well as a kantor (private currency-exchange office), free left-luggage room and bookshops with publications about the site.

If not on a tour, get a copy of the museum-produced Auschwitz Birkenau Guidebook (5zł). It includes plans of both camps.

The Auschwitz extermination camp was established in prewar Polish army barracks on the outskirts of Oświęcim by the German occupiers in April 1940. Auschwitz was originally intended for Polish political prisoners, but the camp was then adapted for the wholesale extermination of the Jews of Europe in fulfilment of German Nazi ideology. For this purpose, the much larger camp at Birkenau (Brzezinka) was built 2km west of the original site in 1941 and 1942, followed by another one in Monowitz (Monowice), several kilometres to the west.

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The World That Was

Directly adjoining the exhibition's entranceway, which displays the word Shoah and a definition of the term in English, Hebrew and Polish, is an opening bearing the words and melody of the prayer Ani Ma'amin ("I Believe"), a basic tenet of Jewish faith. Immediately following is a large room that contains a 360-degree cinematic montage of Jewish life before the Shoah. This vital component of the exhibition illustrates the remarkable diversity of Jewish life between the wars. Original footage of various Jewish communities across prewar Europe and North Africa, including rare color images, envelopes the visitor with the sights, sounds and experiences of Jewish men, women and children in their now-extinct home environments. These people – filmed in times of celebration and in times of mourning, at work, in study and on holiday – were as varied in their religious adherence, creative endeavors and professional backgrounds as their non-Jewish compatriots. Integrated into the montage are images of distinguished scholars, eminent philosophers and prominent intellectuals; yet all, without exception, were targeted for total destruction by the brutal Nazi German regime, simply due to their Jewish lineage.

Specially written musical scores accompany this extraordinary presentation of a vibrant and multifaceted people who were decimated – along with their future aspirations and hopes.

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On the second floor of the exhibition, visitors enter a room containing a forceful, unmediated presentation of Nazi Germany's ideology. No momentary "clash of interests" was this, but a comprehensive, modern, racist German version of antisemitism, demanding the "redemptive" annihilation of the "dangerous, sub-human" Jewish people in favor of the "superior" Aryan nations.

From loudspeakers flanking the visitor on both sides and from screens suspended from the ceiling above, texts, images and sounds in German, simultaneously translated into English, Hebrew and Polish, portray Nazi dogma and principles that assault the senses and purposely engender an atmosphere of the terror and aggression that characterized Nazism. Here, the roots of the Holocaust are graphically highlighted: Nazi ideology, based on a racist-antisemitic world view, was the main driving force behind the Holocaust of the Jews; Auschwitz-Birkenau , alongside other concentration and extermination camps and killing sites, was a horrifying and most elaborate extension of this creed.

Annihilation

Having been thus exposed to the main precepts of the Nazi ideology that conceived and motivated the Holocaust, visitors proceed into a space dedicated to the murder of the Jews. In stark contrast to the previous space, here a deathly silence prevails. One end of the soundproofed room contains a screen on which images of deported Jews are projected, including pictures from the infamous Auschwitz Album. The other end of the room displays a video feed from the site of the adjoining Birkenau extermination camp, allowing visitors to fathom the significance of their presence at one of the sites where the Nazis committed their genocidal crimes against the Jewish people. But the Nazis and their collaborators did not only murder in Auschwitz-Birkenau: they shot, gassed, starved and worked Jews to death across the length and breadth of Europe. Accordingly, along the room's main wall, an enlarged map displays the "Geography of Murder" – the killing sites and death camps spread far and wide across Nazi-occupied Europe, with a row of embedded digital screens presenting images of the annihilation.

The Human Spirit

Following the spaces which present Nazi German ideology and the murder of the Jews, this room encourages visitors to comprehend how individuals struggled physically and spiritually amidst the terrible reality of the Shoah. In addition to a range of survivor testimonies, original diaries and letters from that period give voice to the victims – all testifying to their courageous personal efforts to maintain their human dignity. This matchless documentation shows that, with the few exceptions of non-Jews who risked their lives to help, Jews in every occupied country were forsaken by the neighbors amongst whom they had lived. They sought every possible way to safeguard their human image: retaining their own dignity and respect for their fellow human beings, defending their communal, personal and family values, and taking a spiritual and physical stand against those who tried to destroy these universal ideals.

The visitor now passes through the space dedicated to the children and proceeds on to view the Book of Names. At the far end of the space in which the Book of Names is displayed, 12 frames hang upon the wall as if in a family home, displaying photographs of Holocaust survivors with their children and grandchildren. The photographs interchange – some 250 in total – and bear testimony to the lives the survivors rebuilt after the immeasurable trauma each of them endured during the terrible years of the Shoah.

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Auschwitz. In Front of Your Eyes.

Auschwitz. In Front of Your Eyes. An in-person series with our partners at Auschwitz Birkenau Foundation

Admission: $10 per person, includes complimentary admission to see our newly renovated exhibit.

Join us at The HC for Auschwitz In Front of Your Eyes , a live, virtual, guided tour of the infamous concentration and extermination camp. Deepen your understanding and gain exclusive access to previously inaccessible areas with one of the Auschwitz Memorial’s knowledgeable guides.

Members of The HC staff will facilitate each session, providing opportunities to ask questions and interact with guides. Five dates will be offered: May 26 , June 23 , July 28 , August 13 , and September 22 . All tours are designed to last two hours and are divided into two parts – Auschwitz I and Birkenau.

“The Auschwitz Memorial and its resources must remain accessible to all who want to understand it. This is where we have the opportunity to confront and address the most important issues related to humanity, society, the threats of antisemitism, racial hatred, and contempt for others.” – Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywinski, Director of the Auschwitz Museum

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Visiting Auschwitz – How to Plan the Auschwitz Tour

Visiting Auschwitz, albeit a very somber experience, is one of the must things to do in Poland. The largest Nazi Germany concentration and extermination camp during World War II, where over 1,3 million people lost their lives, needs no introduction. Conveniently located near Krakow , Auschwitz can be an easy addition to your Poland itinerary.

It took me almost 37 years to finally visit Auschwitz (although I’ve been to other Nazi Germany camps in Poland), and even if I knew very well what to expect, the place still overwhelmed me with its cruelty and tragedy. And I think everyone should plan a trip to Auschwitz to understand history better and see what people are capable of when the ideology brainwashes them. And, of course, to pay respect to all the unnecessary victims. It’s important to visit places like Auschwitz so we can do our best to prevent similar tragedies from happening in the future.

If you are visiting Poland (especially Krakow , Warsaw , Katowice , or Wroclaw ), I prepared this guide to help you plan your Auschwitz tour without too much hassle. There are different ways to visit Auschwitz, but no matter which one you choose, be prepared for one of the most difficult yet necessary travel experiences of your life.

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Where is Auschwitz

The former Nazi Germany Concentration Camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, is located in a town of around 37.000 inhabitants called Oświęcim in southern Poland. Krakow is less than 70 km away, and Katowice is 35 km away. Warsaw, the capital of Poland, is around 330 km away from Oświęcim.

A brief history of Auschwitz

Even if Auschwitz is known mainly as the extermination camp, it was established as a concentration camp in mid-1940. It was one of over 40 camps in Poland that were supposed to be a solution to the problem of overflowing prisons full of arrested locals. The first people were brought to Auschwitz on June 14th, 1940, from the prison in Tarnow.

Since 1942 Auschwitz has also been used as the extermination camp where Nazis implemented their plan to murder Jewish people from all over Europe. At the peak of its operation, in 1944, Auschwitz was divided into three parts: Auschwitz I (the oldest one, in the old Polish military barracks), Auschwitz II-Birkenau (the largest one, founded in 1941, the majority of victims were killed here), and Auschwitz III (this was a group of over 40 sub-camps created near industrial plants, made for work prisoners).

Numerous Polish villages were demolished, and locals were evicted to develop such a large institution. The camps were isolated from the outside world. The total area was around 40 square kilometers, including all three Auschwitz camps and the so-called “interest zone” used for the technical or supply background, offices, and barracks for Nazis.

Since Auschwitz had a strategic location on the front line, in August 1944, the camp’s liquidation began – the prisoners were taken to Germany, and the evidence of the crimes was covered up. The liberation of Auschwitz took place on January 27th, 1945, when around 7,5 thousand prisoners were still held there.

Altogether, in the almost four years of operation, over 1,3 million people lost their lives in Auschwitz; the majority were Jewish (around 1,1 million), but also Polish (about 150 hundred thousand), Roma people (23 thousand), and other nations.

In 1979 Auschwitz was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List – it is the only former Nazi concentration camp with that title in the world.

How to visit Auschwitz

You can visit Auschwitz two ways: with a tour from where you are staying in Poland (most likely Krakow, Katowice, Warsaw, or Wroclaw) or independently, reaching the site by car or using public transport. Both options are doable; however, the tour is a slightly better one as everything will be taken care of for you.

There is a wide selection of tours to choose from that depart from Krakow as well as other mentioned cities. Most of them cover more or less the same things: pick-up from your accommodation, transportation to/from Auschwitz and back, the entrance ticket to the concentration camp, and the guided tour on-site.

When I visited Auschwitz, I arrived by train from Warsaw, with the change in Katowice. I was at the museum almost an hour before my guided tour of the site was supposed to start, and despite the poor weather (it was raining on that day), there was no place to hide and wait for the tour. Visitors were not allowed to enter the museum until a few minutes before the tour was about to start. Me and a few other unlucky visitors just stood near the trees, hiding under the umbrella and waiting for our time to enter the site. I can’t say it was a comfortable situation (but at least the weather worked perfectly well for such a sad place to visit). Recently, a new visitors center was opened so hopefully the situation is better.

When using public transport, you need to rely on the schedule of trains/buses and, just in case, plan to be at the site with some extra time ahead; hence a tour is a better option. Still, visiting Auschwitz is doable independently – I did it, and once the tour of the site started, it was really good.

Visiting Auschwitz – practical information

Visiting Auschwitz memorial site is free of charge; however, I recommend joining the tour with the educator provided by the museum. They have a huge knowledge of the place and the tragedy that occurred here and can answer all the questions visitors always have. Tours are available in various languages: Polish, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Czech, and Slovak.

Even if you decide to visit the site independently, you still need to book the entry pass – those with free entrance start in the afternoon. You can buy/reserve your ticket online at the website of Auschwitz Museum here.

Currently, the price for the tour with the educator is 80 PLN for Polish and 90 PLN for other languages. When booking the ticket, you must state your full name and surname – this will be checked later.

Since tickets can sell out quickly, booking one at least a month in advance is recommended. If there are no tickets left for the day you want to visit Auschwitz, you can join the organized tour from Krakow or other cities, as tour operators usually have tickets booked in advance. Due to the sensitive nature of the place, children under 14 years old should not visit Auschwitz Museum.

Once you have your ticket, you need to arrive at the Auschwitz visitors center 30 minutes before your tour starts to go through the security check (it’s rather thorough, similar to the airport), have your ticket inspected (remember to have the ID or passport with you), get the headset for the tour and meet your group. You are allowed to have a bag or backpack with a maximum dimension of 30x20x10 cm; any larger luggage must be left in the paid lockers.

Auschwitz Museum is open every day except January 1st, December 25th, and Easter Sunday. Opening hours vary depending on the month and are as follows:

• 7:30-14:00 in December
• 7:30-15:00 in January and November
• 7:30-16:00 in February
• 7:30-17:00 in March and October
• 7:30-18:00 in April, May, and September
• 7:30-19:00 in June, July, and August

The closing time means the last entrance – after that, you are allowed to stay on-site for an hour and a half. However, if you want to see Auschwitz Museum properly, you need at least 3,5 hours for that – that’s also how long the standard tour with the educator lasts. It is usually divided equally between Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II- Birkenau. A free shuttle bus runs between the two sites every few minutes.

Taking pictures and making videos is allowed in Auschwitz, for individual use, except in two places: the hall with the hair of Victims (block nr 4) and the basements of Block 11. Your educator will remind you not to take pictures there.

Remember what sort of place you are visiting and behave there with respect. It might be obvious for most, but I can’t count how many times I’ve read news about inappropriate behavior in Auschwitz and other similar sites in Poland, so I think it’s worth reminding this is not your typical tourist attraction but a place of one of the greatest tragedy that ever happened in the world.

Getting to Auschwitz independently

If you decide to visit Auschwitz on your own, you must get to the visitors’ center, where your tour will start. The new visitors center, which opened just recently, is located at 55 Więźniów Oświęcimia Street in Oświęcim ( here is the exact location ). If you drive there, there is a large parking lot where you can leave your car before visiting the museum.

If you use public transport, there are both trains and buses you can take to reach Oświęcim. I recommend trains as they are slightly faster and more comfortable; however, some buses stop next to the museum, so that’s convenient. You can check all the connections on this website , where you can also find the location of the bus stop in Oświęcim (there can be three different ones).

The train station in Oświęcim is located at Powstańców Śląskich Street, some 20 minutes walking from the Auschwitz museum. It’s a straightforward way; you can check the map with the directions here . I recommend catching the train that gives you at least an hour between arriving at Oświęcim and when your tour starts.

Auschwitz tour from Krakow

Numerous Auschwitz tours depart from Krakow, so you will easily find the one that suits your itinerary and needs. Here are some recommended ones:

• Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial Guided Tour from Krakow
• Auschwitz & Birkenau – Fully Guided Tour from Krakow
• Auschwitz-Birkenau Guided Tour with Private Transport from Kraków
• Auschwitz-Birkenau Guided Tour by Private Transport from Krakow

You can also combine visiting Auschwitz with Wieliczka Salt Mine , another UNESCO-listed site near Krakow and a must-visit place in Poland. Here are the tours that go to both places in one day:

• Day Trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Wieliczka Salt Mine from Krakow including Lunch
• Full-Day Tour of Auschwitz and Wieliczka Salt Mine from Krakow
• Auschwitz-Birkenau and Salt Mine Tour with private transport from Krakow
• Combined: Auschwitz Birkenau and Salt Mine private chauffeur from Krakow

If you decide to go to Auschwitz from Krakow on your own, you can take the train from the main train station to Oświęcim. They are rather frequent, more or less every hour, and the journey takes a bit over an hour (depending on the connection, the longest one is 1h20min).

If you want to take the bus, they depart from the MDA bus station, next to the main train station. The price for trains and buses is similar, between 15 and 20 PLN, although trains tend to be cheaper and faster. You can check all the connections and buy a ticket here .

Auschwitz tour from Warsaw

Even if Warsaw, the capital of Poland, is located over 300 km away from Oświęcim, it is possible to go for a one-day Auschwitz tour. However, you can expect a long day, and a large part of it will be spent traveling. But if you are visiting Warsaw only, Auschwitz can be a good addition to your Poland itinerary, so you can better understand the country’s complex history.

Here are some of the recommended Auschwitz tours from Warsaw:

• From Warsaw Auschwitz and Krakow one day tour by train with pick up and drop off
• One day tour to Auschwitz-Birkenau from Warsaw with private transport

Going for the day trip from Warsaw to Auschwitz independently is also possible using trains. You can take the 6 am train to Katowice and then change for the train to Oświęcim, arriving in the town around 10:30. If you decide to do that, you can book your Auschwitz tour for 11:30 or 12:00. On the way back, you can catch the train after 16:00 from Oświęcim to Katowice, and after changing for the train to Warsaw, you will be in the capital after 20:00.

Auschwitz tour from Katowice

Since Katowice is less than 40 km from Auschwitz, it’s easy to go for a day trip. You need to take the local train to Oświęcim, it takes less than 50 minutes, and the connections are more or less every hour.

Or you can go for a tour, here are the Auschwitz tours from Katowice:

• Auschwitz – Birkenau from Katowice
• Auschwitz & Birkenau English guided tour by private transport from Katowice
• Auschwitz tour from Wroclaw

Wroclaw is another popular place to visit in Poland, and since it’s located around 230 km from Oświęcim, you can go for an Auschwitz tour from Wroclaw too. If you decide to do it independently, you can take the train to Katowice and then change for the local train to Oświęcim. A one-way trip should take you less than 4 hours.

Or you can go for a tour; here are the recommended ones from Wroclaw:

• Auschwitz-Birkenau Tour from Wrocław
• Private Full-Day Tour to Auschwitz-Birkenau from Wroclaw

Auschwitz Museum Tour

As for the museum itself, here is what you can expect.

You will start in the oldest part of the concentration camp – Auschwitz I, where the infamous gate with the sign “Arbeit macht frei” (meaning “Work Sets You Free”) is located. Here, you will visit numerous barracks where inmates were kept – now you can see different exhibitions there, showing the reality of Auschwitz and halls with personal belongings taken from arriving prisoners – luggage, shoes, glasses, etc., or hair of Victims. You will learn all about cruel practices here, including medical experiments or torture.

Visiting this part of Auschwitz museum is a very somber experience, and it’s really difficult to comprehend the tragedy that happened in this very place.

Besides the barracks in Auschwitz I, you will also see where the camp commander lived or the first crematorium where Nazis started their experiments with killing using gas. In this part of the Auschwitz tour, you can take pictures everywhere except the two places in Blocks 4 and 11 – they will be clearly marked, and your educator will remind you about this restriction.

The visit to Auschwitz I takes around 1,5 hours. Afterward, together with your group and educator, you will take the shuttle bus to Auschwitz II-Birkenau, located some 3 km away.

Auschwitz II-Birkenau is where around 90% of victims died. It is a huge area that worked kind of like the killing factory, with four gas chambers and crematoriums. This is also where most prisoners arrived – you most likely know the view of the railway tracks and brick gate – that’s Auschwitz II-Birkenau. This part of the visit is mostly outdoors.

You will walk around the area, see the remnants of the camp, visit some barracks inside, and learn all about the horrific tragedy that happened here. When Auschwitz I has a more intimate, even claustrophobic feeling, Auschwitz II-Birkenau can overwhelm you with its scale and enormity.

You will spend around 1,5 hours here, too; afterward, you can take the shuttle bus back to the visitors center when you started your tour.

Final thoughts on visiting Auschwitz

Even though I’ve lived in Poland almost my whole life, and Auschwitz has been a familiar topic since I remember, it took me nearly 37 years to finally visit the place. Before I was in different Nazi Germany sites in Poland, mostly in Majdanek in Lublin, so I didn’t feel the need to visit Auschwitz too. But I don’t regret the decision to go there eventually.

You can read and learn about the place, but nothing can prepare you for visiting Auschwitz. Some areas look familiar (after all, pictures of the “Arbeit macht frei” sign or Birkenau gate are present everywhere), but you will still be overwhelmed by the place and seeing it in real life. It’s hard to comprehend the cruelty and tragedy that happened here, and dealing with all the thoughts invading your mind afterward can take a while. It can be one of the most difficult-to-understand places you will ever visit.

Still, despite it all, I think everyone should go to Auschwitz to see where fanaticism and totalitarianism can lead and why we should avoid them at all costs.

Further reading

I published many articles about Poland that you might find useful when planning your trip there. Here are some of them:

• 37 Amazing Things to Do in Krakow, Poland
• 20 Great Places to Visit As Day Trips from Warsaw, Poland
• 17 Amazing Things to Do in Lublin, Poland
• The Complete Guide to Visiting Slownski National Park, Poland
• Visit Grudziadz – One of the Hidden Gems of Poland
• 19 Amazing Things to Do in Gdansk, Poland
• Visit Sandomierz, Poland – One of the Prettiest Towns in the Country
• Visiting Malbork Castle, Poland – the Largest Castle in the World
• 25 Amazing Things to do in Wroclaw, Poland
• and many more!

If you are looking for articles about a specific destination – check out the map with all the articles I’ve published (and their locations). You can also join my Facebook group about traveling in Central Europe and ask your questions there.

Travel Resources

You can find the best accommodation options at Booking . They have many discounts and excellent customer service. Click here to look for the place to stay in Poland

Never travel without travel insurance , you never know what might happen and better safe than sorry. You can check the insurance policy for Poland here.

I recommend joining organized tours to get to know the place better and to visit more places during your trip. You can find a great selection of tours at Get Your Guide – click here .

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Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Tour from Krakow

A guided tour of the largest concentration camp of WWII

This three-hour tour will give you the opportunity to visit one of the largest of the former concentration camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau. After you've been picked up from your hotel in Kraków, you'll visit Auschwitz I for approximately two hours and Auschwitz II - Birkenau for approximately one hour. You'll learn more about the prisoners' experience and see the location of the Holocaust. During the tour, your guide will share insights into what life was like in the camps and the site's history.

Throughout the tour, your guide will be on hand to provide compassionate stories and insight into what life was like in the camps. The tour also offers the chance to pay your respects to the people who lost their lives while gaining an understanding of the magnitude of the crimes that were committed during Nazi rule.

• Largest of the former concentration camps
• Chance to learn about the history of Auschwitz-Birkenau
• Insight into what life was like for prisoners within the camp
• Chance to visit Auschwitz l and Auschwitz ll-Birkenau

What's included

• Round-trip transportation in an air-conditioned vehicle
• Hotel pickup

What's not included

• Food and drinks

Restrictions

• Visitors must show a valid photo ID.

Languages spoken by guide

Additional information.

A valid student ID is required to receive a student discount.

This tour can accommodate a maximum of 30 visitors, but smaller groups are preferred. Each car can accommodate a maximum of 8 visitors.

Please bring your ticket with you to the attraction.

Be aware that operators may cancel for unforeseen reasons.

You need to be 18 years or older to book or be accompanied by an adult.

Operated by AT Cracow

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Tickets and prices

Getting your tickets in advance is highly encouraged, as availability is limited.

You can get them  HERE.

Admission hours

From March 15th in Boston (MA)

Access Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m

The recommended duration of the visit is between 2 and 3 hours.

School groups

Email [email protected]  for more information.

The visit is always done with an individual audio guide available in English and Spanish that will guide you throughout the tour with additional information.

It will be provided to visitors upon arrival at the exhibition.

General Admission

Tickets start at  $27.95 .

Discounts are available for children, seniors, and groups of 10 or more.

* Prices include audio guide

No refunds or cancellations are allowed except as expressly stated in this Ticket Exchange Policy. The deadline for all exchanges is 24 hours prior to the date and time listed on the original ticket. 

Things to take into account

During your visit, you must remember:

More than 1,100,000 people were tortured and killed in Auschwitz. The visitors are therefore required to show the utmost respect for each and every one of the exhibits, for most are directly related to the victims. Any lack of consideration will lead to banning or expulsion from the exhibition premises.

Visitors are allowed to take pictures with smartphones or non-professional cameras. Flash, tripods or any other devices that can disturb other visitors’ movements or vision are forbidden.

Suitcases and backpacks are not allowed in the exhibition rooms. You can leave your luggage in the exhibition wardrobe free of charge.

Please mute your phone and keep as silent as possible for the benefit of the other visitors.

Filming with video camera is not allowed. Please contact us prior to your visit for special permission.

You are not allowed to smoke, eat or drink in the premises. Animals are not allowed (except for guide dogs).

Any use of the pictures taken in the exhibition for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden.

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Not long ago. Not far away.

SEEMS INADEQUATE For What You’ve Done To Make Such A Difference.

Nearly nine months ago Auschwitz: The Exhibition opened in Kansas City and the voices of millions of Holocaust victims and survivors implored each of us to “Do Something”. . .   and you did.

You Donated.   You Visited.   You Encountered.   You Discussed.

Now all of us are better equipped to recognize and reject the seeds of Hatred, Intolerance and Indifference.

We are profoundly grateful to the more than 315,000 people who attended.  

We will not forget.   We will not look away.   We will be the change this world needs.

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

• Bank of America
• Edward F. Swinney Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee
• Marion & Henry Bloch Family Foundation
• Hall Family Foundation
• Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
• Kemper Family Foundations – UMB Bank, N.A., as Trustee
• Sosland Family
• Victor E. and Caroline E. Schutte Foundation Trust E, David Frantze & Bank of America, N.A., Trustees
• In Loving Memory of Ilsa Dahl Cole and Walter Joseph Cole by Ann & Kenneth Baum
• Claims Conference
• In Loving Memory of Fred & Maria Devinki by the
• Sam Devinki-Stahl-Fink Families
• Shirley and Barnett C. Helzberg, Jr.  
• William T. Kemper Foundation – Commerce Bank Trustee
• Berkley Family / Tension Foundation
• Craig & Ida Kolkin and Family
• Oppenstein Brothers Foundation – Commerce Bank Trustee
• Steven and Karen Pack Family Fund
• Regnier Family Foundations
• Arvin Gottlieb Charitable Foundation – Peter W. Brown, Barton J. Cohen, UMB Bank, N.A., as Trustees
• City of Kansas City, MO Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund
• Michael & Cathy Schultz
• Copaken Family Foundation
• JE Dunn Construction
• Haverty Family Foundation
• Jackson County MO
• Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation
• Merriman Foundation
• Harry Portman Charitable Trust, UMB Bank, N.A., as Trustee
• Sherman Family Foundation
• Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City Legacy Fund
• Louis & Frances Swinken Foundation
• Herbert Buchbinder
• In Honor of Cole, Dahl, David and Green families by Steven and Beth Cole
• Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City
• Kansas City PBS
• Westin Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center

An International Exhibition of Unprecedented Importance. A Story to Shake the Conscience of the World.

This groundbreaking exhibition brings together more than 700 original objects and 400 photographs from over 20 institutions and museums around the world. Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. is the most comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the history of Auschwitz and its role in the Holocaust ever presented in North America, and an unparalleled opportunity to confront the singular face of human evil—one that arose not long ago and not far away.

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The Exhibition

For the first time, 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, a touring exhibition dedicated to the historical significance of the camp is being presented to a U.S. audience.

Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. opening in Kansas City June 2021 after the exhibition closes at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. The exhibition explores the dual identity of the camp as a physical location—the largest documented mass murder site in human history—and as a symbol of the borderless manifestation of hatred and human barbarity.

Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. was conceived by Musealia and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and curated by an international panel of experts, including world-renowned scholars Dr. Robert Jan van Pelt, Dr. Michael Berenbaum, and Paul Salmons, in an unprecedented collaboration with historians and curators at the Research Center at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, led by Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz.

The exhibition features artifacts and materials—never before seen in North America—on loan from more than 20 institutions and private collections around the world. In addition to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, participating institutions include Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oświęcim, the Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen in Oranienburg, and the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide in London.

Special thanks to these supporters for helping bring  the Auschwitz Exhibition to Kansas City:

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Speaker Series

Union Station Kansas City and The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education are pleased to present the following educational programs associated with the exhibition Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.

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David Marwell – Mengele: Unmasking the “Angel of Death”

February 8, 2022, at 6:30 pm

Robert Jan van Pelt – Auschwitz

January 27, 2022, at 6:30 pm

Caroline Sturdy Colls – Archaeology of the Holocaust: Treblinka and Bergen-Belsen

Our Mothers Were in Auschwitz – Three Daughters Remember

December 1, 2021 at 6:30 pm

Sam Kassow – Times Capsules Under the Rubble: the Ringelblum Archive in the Warsaw Ghetto

Oct. 26, 2021 at 6:30 pm

Sam Kassow – The Overlooked Jewish Resistance

Dr Dane Sommer, D. Min., M.Div., BCC – Never a Means to an End: How the Atrocities of the Holocaust Impact Modern Research

Lawrence Douglas – From Nuremberg to Demjanjuk: Justice and the Trials of the Holocaust – Annual Kristallnacht Commemoration

November 9, 2021 at 6:30

Shelly Cline – Belzec to Auschwitz

Sept. 23, 2021 at 6:30

Holly Huffnagle – 75 Years After Auschwitz: Antisemitism in America

October 4, 2021 at 6:30

Anna Hájková – Terezin & Deportations from the West

08/24/21 via Zoom

Beth Griech-Polelle – Hitler’s First Victims: The Nazi Forced Sterilization Program and the Euthanasia Project

September 13, 2021 at 6:30 pm via Zoom

Non-Jewish Victims of the Holocaust: A Panel

September 14, 2021 at 2:00 via Zoom

William Spurlin – Queering Holocaust Studies

Oct. 12, 2021 at 6:30 via Zoom

Paul Salmons – Frozen moments – what is revealed in the photographs of Auschwitz?

January 11, 2022, at 2:00 pm

Dr. Sturdy Colls will present on her research as an archaeologist at the sites of Treblinka and Bergen-Belsen.

Presented by the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education and Union Station Kansas City in support of the exhibition Auschwitz: Not long ago. Not far away.

While accounts of Jewish resistance during World War II tend to focus on armed uprisings in ghettos and guerilla warfare and sabotage in the forests of Europe, the fight against the Nazis involved more than guns and explosives. Many Jews took nonviolent action, assisting one another in hiding and taking steps to preserve their faith and culture through writing, schooling, religious observance, smuggling, and collective activities.

In a special, late-morning Library presentation, renowned historian Samuel Kassow explores these potent, if overlooked, ways in which Jews defied Nazi attempts to dehumanize them and break their morale. The event is co-presented by the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education and Union Station Kansas City in conjunction with the exhibition Auschwitz . Not long ago. Not far away. on display at Union Station through January 30, 2022.

Kassow is the Charles Northam Professor of History at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he has served on the faculty since 1972. He is the author of Who Will Write Our History: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archives , which was adapted into a film documentary in 2018, and The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police.

We are still learning lessons from the horrors of the Holocaust as we remember the past and redefine the present and future. This lecture explores the human suffering that occurred as individuals were permanently harmed and killed to explore the limits of human life. They had become a means to an end. The world responded with imperatives that would guide all future human subjects research. How do the heinous atrocities that occurred during the Holocaust provide a constant vigil over the increasing complexities of modern research? Can lament and hope coexist?”

For AOA CME credit of this event it must be added to the DO’s AOA reporting when they log activity.  No certificate can be provided. DO’s simply go to  https://osteopathic.org/cme/cme-self-reporting/  and follow the directions.

Terezín was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. The Last Ghetto offers both a modern history of this Central European ghetto and the first in-depth analytical history of a prison society during the Holocaust. During the three and a half years of the camp’s existence, prisoners created their own culture and habits, bonded, fell in love, and forged new families. Based on extensive archival research in nine languages and on empathetic reading of victim testimonies, The Last Ghetto casts light on human society works in extremis.

Dr. Anna Hájková, Associate Professor of Modern Continental European History, University of Warwick, is the author of The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt. Awarded the Irma Rosenberg and Herbert Steiner Prizes, the book focuses on the everyday history of the Holocaust, using the Terezín transit ghetto as a springboard to examine larger issues of human behavior under extreme stress. Her work examines the society in the camps, Jewish social and political elites, issues of nationalism and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and the Jewish Councils.

When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, eugenicists welcomed his appointment. Many in the eugenics community believed that Hitler would be the one to put their theories into real practice to “cleanse” the population of Germany. They were correct. Moving first against those deemed to be “unhealthy” and “unfit” to be members of the People’s Community, the Nazi regime began forced sterilizations. By 1939, Hitler was ready to move to eliminate the mentally ill and physically disabled in what came to be called the “Euthanasia” Project. Learning about the “Euthanasia” Project is critical to understanding the evolution of Nazi killing methods.

Dr. Griech-Polelle is Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies, Pacific Lutheran University. She is the author of A nti-Semitism and the Holocaust: Language, Rhetoric and the Traditions of Hatred, Trajectories of Memory: Intergenerational Representations of the Holocaust in History and the Arts, The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial and its Policy Consequences Today, Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism.

Nearly 5 million non-Jews were murdered in the course of the Holocaust. This panel will explore the experiences of three of those victim groups – the Roma, queer victims, and the mentally and physically disabled. Gerhard Baumgartner, William Spurlin, and Beth Griech-Pollele will fill this panel and each will give an individual presentation on a separate date.

Professor Spurlin is Professor of English and Vice-Dean/Education in the College of Business, Arts & Social Sciences, Brunel University London. He has written extensively on the politics of gender and sexual dissidence and is widely known for his work in queer studies. His monograph,  Lost Intimacies: Rethinking Homosexuality   under National Socialism  (2009), uses queer theory to read against the grain of hetero-textual narratives of the Holocaust and as a way for locating sexuality at its intersections with race, gender, and eugenics within the National Socialist imaginary.  His book also challenges prevailing assumptions in the received scholarship that lesbians were not as systematically persecuted by the Nazis.

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