Auschwitz Birkenau Private Day Trip

Description

When making your booking, you'll be able to choose from the following two private day trips from Krakow:

Auschwitz Birkenau Day Trip

We'll pick you up from your hotel in Krakow and set off for Auschwitz-Birkenau. In just over 1 hour, we'll arrive at what was the largest Nazi extermination camp during the Second World War. This place has been declared a World Heritage Site since 1979 so that we don't forget the crimes of the Holocaust. 

We'll start the tour in the prison blocks; today there are several exhibitions that explain how prisoners were punished for resting after hard work or for any issue that occurred to the SS guards. Afterwards, we'll continue through to one of the most shocking areas of the concentration camp: the gas chambers and cremation area. There we'll learn how far the regime's brutality and how fearful political propaganda could lead people to commit such disgraceful crimes.

We'll continue with the tour discovering the most recognised part of this terrifying place. Here we'll see the train tracks that were used to enter the camp itself with thousands of people on board. When the train stopped, some were selected for imminent extermination, as prisoners or for medical experimentation. Jews, Gypsies, Spanish Republicans, political prisoners and homosexuals all lost their lives in this camp. 

From here we can see the barracks, latrines and the remains of four crematoriums with gas chambers that were destroyed in an attempt to hide what had happened in Auschwitz-Birkenau from the Soviet troops. At the end of the visit, you'll have 45 minutes of free time for lunch and we'll return to Krakow, where we'll arrive back at your hotel after six and half hours. 

Auschwitz Birkenau, Krakow Ghetto and Schindler's Factory

If you choose this option, we'll likewise begin by picking you up from your hotel in Krakow. We'll take you to the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp to learn about its tragic history.

After travelling through the camp, we'll pause at the Judenrampe. This sombre part of the camp is the ramp used by the SS until 1944 to "unload" Jews from different parts of Europe.

At around 1:30 pm, we'll return to Krakow and stop at a traditional Polish restaurant so you can have lunch on your own. After lunch, at about 2:45 pm, we'll go on a private tour in English through the Krakow Ghetto. During the tour, you'll see the areas of the city where the Nazis separated and persecuted the Jewish population. 

Next, we'll take you to Oskar Schindler's Factory. You'll visit this factory on your own and see where hundreds of Jews worked, whom the entrepreneur Schindler managed to save from an almost certain death.

It'll then be time to take you back to your hotel in Krakow.

Full Auschwitz-Birkenau Trip

If you choose this option we'll pick you up at your hotel in Kraków. You'll be accompanied by an English-speaking guide from the moment you are picked up.

The first stop will be at Auschwitz I, where you will be accompanied by a Polish-speaking guide and an English-speaking interpreter. In the same way, we'll also have a guided tour of Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

Afterwards, we'll visit the Judenrampe of Auschwitz II-Birkenau. From there we'll make our way town of Oswiecim, where we'll see the Market Square from our vehicle.

Finally, we'll visit the Auschwitz III-Monowitz memorial and return to your hotel in Krakow, where we will conclude this 7-hour and 40-minute tour.