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Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau

(Miejsce Pamięci i Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau)

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Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau

"A "must see" if you are visiting krakow and the south of poland!"(7 Tips)
"tours run from Kraków"(22 Tips)
""There are no words to describe the enormity of this crime""(3 Tips)
"... internet y es mas barato (inexpensive).."(4 Tips)

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Martijn KapperFebruary 13, 2016
This is a place you have to visit in your life. The horrors that took place here are hard to believe untill you see it with your own eyes. The guided tours are good and available in various languages.
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Rickard JonssonDecember 22, 2016
Whilst it is a study in human cruelty, it is vital that you visit the camp to understand and to make sure that it doesn't happen again. Go in the morning before the crowds so you have time to reflect
Ioannis PapapetrouDecember 16, 2016
What can you say about this place...You better visited it during the winter if you can stand the cold so you feel the atmosphere.You can learn details about the camps and what the nazis did to jewish
Ана ЛековићFebruary 13, 2017
Also, if you go by yourself with guidebook, you will roam and discover more places (tour only goes through some of buildings available to public - all of them are numbered 👇🏻).
Kaitlyn ReedJune 3, 2019
Free entry without tour guide before 10am or after 5pm. They only have a select number of these tickets. Buy the guide book from the bookstore, it tells you EVERYTHING you need to know for 25pln
Moritz SchuchmannFebruary 16, 2017
It's not possible to find words for this place. What I can say it that we had a very nice female tourguide who also told some personal stories regarding family members who died in the camp.
Laura NisbetNovember 25, 2014
A must see!! We arranged our trip through escape2poland. It cost approx. £13 pp. They pick you up/drop you off at your hotel. Took around 1hr to get there by bus from Kraków. Full trip took 6hrs!
Carl GriffinAugust 15, 2016
A must visit if in the Krakow area. Truly harrowing but incredibly informative. There are a lot of companies who will arrange a tour. Entry is free.
Karolina KellyDecember 10, 2015
Must see place if you're interested in history. Guides are very informated and helpful. To make sure you've seen everything be there for two days.
Arthur AntilleFebruary 11, 2018
The most troubling museum I've ever visited... You absolutely have to visit the place once in your life!
Ана ЛековићFebruary 12, 2017
(Part 2)...and it's great because it's organized by rooms you visit and friend told me guides practically memorize whole thing. So it's great for people who want to have whole thing on paper, too.
Emre VarlıkJune 10, 2016
Although it is sad Auschwitz is a must see place. Entrance is free but if you want to visit before 3 pm you have to buy a guided tour.
Julius CruickshankJune 24, 2015
The organized tour is vey impressive. Try to book a week in advance as the English tours fill up and I saw some American tourists get upset at not getting to go on a tour straight away.
Rebecca BroganNovember 25, 2014
An awful part of history but a must see! Lots of tours run from Kraków, we used Escape 2 Poland, around £20 per person with hotel pick up included.
Julian ChowOctober 9, 2013
Definitely worth a visit. Something which you read in the history books is brought to life by the vivid descriptions of the tour guide
Klara SJuly 20, 2016
Please make sure to see both the base camp (Auschwitz) and the second part of the camp (Birkenau) where most of the extermination took place. Birkenau will give you a terrifying sense of scale.
Joke Van der maelenApril 12, 2015
Take 2 to 3 hours for Auschwitz. Birkenau is huge and I'd say you need 3 hours to take it all in. It's overwhelming and surreal. There's a free shuttle bus between the 2 camps.
Emma MarieMay 20, 2017
A truly eye opening experience. Nothing can prepare you for it. To see & feel what happened to the jews in this cruel barbaric way is life changing. It puts a whole new perspective on life.
Tomas StrangeOctober 7, 2014
I have visited auschwitz, I didn't expected to see something like this, I have traveled with http://visitbus.com/auschwitz-tour.php, they took me from my place and the journey was very good Read more
Elena ZarubinaJune 27, 2016
The trip is not as depressive as you might expect, and definitely worth a visit. So don't worry and go.
Aslı D.August 9, 2013
"The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again..." it is the most dramatic place where i had been, everyone should visit here to face up to a part of real history.
Steven AndrophyAugust 23, 2013
A visit to Auschwitz/Birkenau is something that you must do before you die, it is truly moving. It is only an hour from Kraków by car, and should be a top priority to visit.
European ParliamentApril 22, 2013
"There are no words to describe the enormity of this crime," President Martin Schulz said when visiting the Auschwitz death camp on 20 April. "We must never ever forget." Read more
Stefanie DDecember 9, 2013
Everyone should visit this place once in their life. You have learned about it, seen it in movies,... but that's nothing compared to the real thing. And of course, take a guide...
AL RNJanuary 8, 2015
So impressed, lots of information, it needs to spend a full day, the bad thing is it closes at 4pm.
Alina GabaraevaMarch 13, 2017
We had an amazing tour guide who was telling us about the life in Auschwitz using small beautiful stories
ShayMarch 15, 2016
Every person needs to come here once in their life time. This camp is so huge. Be prepared for lots of walking.
Joanne WrightSeptember 26, 2014
The only tip I can leave is it's a place that everyone should visit. This horrific event should never be forgotten! Moving experience beyond words!
Matija KlasincAugust 18, 2017
It is a must see. Walking around the camp site is tragic but an important experience for anyone.
David 🏁 B.October 20, 2016
I had a bad feeling of going to Auschwitz and end up visiting the site as a “tourist attraction”. I was wrong. I understood how reading books don't compare to the concrete experience of being there.
CasAugust 30, 2015
If you start here, the guide will take you to Auschwitz ll. Highly recommended.
Markus YlijokiJune 10, 2014
Come in as early as possible. Buses from Krakow take almost two hours so you'll have to leave the hotel really early. The tour is 40 zlotys and lasts for 3 1/2 hours. The tour is good value for money.
Michele SalvoDecember 28, 2014
A "must see" if you are visiting krakow and the south of poland!
Arthur RosenfeldSeptember 3, 2017
Interesting guided tour, don't forget to reserve visit hour and language.
Ана ЛековићFebruary 12, 2017
It's an experience everybody should get, so history won't repeat itself. Stoj/hault and think it over and over.
Marta TurskaNovember 10, 2014
Very touching place, good as the end of the trip, more like a 'one time visit', usually people don't go there twice. Worth visiting
John 忠威 suɐɥ Dyke🐑August 25, 2014
Very moving place but a must see place. Very good guides available and well organised and informative.
Jaroslaw MarciukSeptember 24, 2011
The complex of camps, which became a symbol of genocide, terror and the Holocaust, was established in 1940. During World War II the Nazis murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews, Poles, Gypsies.
Ана ЛековићFebruary 12, 2017
If you're hard-of-hearing or deaf person, go before tour in building where wc and shop are and buy a black'n'white guide. I think it was pretty cheap... (part 1)
Patrik OulehlaAugust 29, 2016
Amazing tour, definitely worth it to see it once! I feel sorry for victims, but everyone should go there at least once in life.
George Tsonev/🚂/🛤️/August 5, 2016
You MUST SEE what GERMAN'S have built! An amazing and shoking experience of what the prisoners have been through!
LuJanuary 11, 2016
Visit with a 6 hour guided tour
David BesseNovember 3, 2015
i expected much more anyway free pass if you dont want guide, you have to make reservation if you want guide cause its always full
ArnoldAugust 12, 2013
definitely take a (early) tour, go for both camps and if your guide tells you don't take photos out of respect, don't do it!
Austin WestermannFebruary 2, 2015
You must see this part of history no matter who you are. It is a compelling and sad experience
EviAugust 10, 2017
The biggest graveyard in the world makes you think about the terrors of the past and how one should never repeat them in the future...
Marietta ProtopapaNovember 17, 2017
It’s a must if you’re In Kraków, the place is history incarnated.
Arjan TupanJuly 11, 2012
Take your time for this, and don't forget to wander around and also walk to the far end. Very impressive.
Elena ZarubinaJune 27, 2016
We took 6 hour tour. Maybe we were not lucky with a guide, as she was repeating herself so many times, it was very boring, as if she didn't know what to say.
Jenny SAugust 8, 2016
You need to go to info counter and get a ticket for your entrance time. We didn't know and had to skip the Auschwitz side. Other tips are pretty useless

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