Start your tour by walking through the gate of the first camp - Auschwitz I - originally conceived as a concentration camp, DA used as a detention center for the many Polish citizens arrested after the country's annexation to Germany in 1939, with the most recognizable sign Arbeit Macht Frei (Work sets you free). This part usually takes 2 hours and you will use an earphone to hear the Guide clearly. The group according to the Museum regulations has up to 30 people making the visit comfortable and accessible for each participant. Visit the original wooden buildings, fortified walls, barbed wire, gas chambers and crematoria – all leave a shocking impression that allows you to imagine the scale of the Holocaust.

Brzezinka

After the 1 camp there is a short break of maximum 15 minutes. You will be taken DA to visit the second part of the tour - Birkenau (Auschwitz II), just 3 minutes away, which is the largest camp built and operated with the specific purpose of making Europe "Judenrein" (free from Jews). The same Guide continues a moving field conference in the village of Brzezinka, which was built in 1941 on orders from Heinrich Himmler (SS commander) and could hold around 90,000 prisoners. You will be told terrible stories of unimaginable living conditions, as well as cruel selection and pseudoscientific medical experiments conducted DA eminent Nazi doctors, including Josef Mengele. A story about the soldiers of the 60th Army of the Ukrainian First Front who opened the gates of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, which meant the final liberation, concludes your tour with the feeling that this genocide should never have happened and cannot happen again.