Special Discount Offer: Auschwitz State Museum and Memorial During the World Youth Days

Información

In view of the World Youth Day, which will be held in Krakow in July 2016, and the visit of Pope Francis, the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum will be open in this period to visitors under specific conditions. Tour will be conducted on a specially prepared route.

HIGHLIGHTS:

* Special information leaflet
* Outdoor exhibition

Explore the darkest chapter in history with this emotive tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most notorious of Nazi concentration camps. Representing a truly awful point in the history of humanity, this tour of the camps will give you insights into both the strengths and weaknesses of the human condition. Exactly how many innocent men, women and children were murdered at Auschwitz is not known but all estimates are above the one-million mark.

Out of respect for those who lost their lives here, please maintain the dignity and sanctity of these memorials by wearing appropriate attire. This tour will provide an education into a history that can never be forgotten so that the steps and climate leading up to it will never be repeated again.

Meeting/pick-up point: Corner of Barska Street and Wierzbowa Street.
Duration: 7 hours (time in the Museum will be limited to 1.5 hours).
Start/opening time: Depending on the option chosen.
Languages: English-speaking driver.
Others: Eating and smoking, as well as acting in a loud manner are forbidden at the site.
The maximum size of backpacks or handbags brought into the Museum cannot exceed dimensions: 30x20x10 cm. Larger bags must be left in the bus.
Includes transportation by air-conditioned bus, Auschwitz Information booklet, English-speaking tour leader.
Excludes guide in the Museum.
The route has been planned in such a way as to allow the visitors explore the most important places on the premises of the Museum.
Possibility to enter Birkenau (Auschwitz II). The interior of the historic buildings will be inaccessible to visitors.