Auschwitz Birkenau Private Day Trip

Learn about the dark past of World War 2 with this private day trip to of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp from Krakow.

Description

When making your booking, you'll 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 head to Auschwitz-Birkenau, arriving in just over 1 hour. As the largest Nazi extermination camp, it was declared a World Heritage Site in 1979 to remember Holocaust crimes. The tour starts in the prison blocks, featuring exhibitions on the punishment of prisoners. We will visit the gas chambers and cremation area to understand the regime's brutality.

Next, we'll see the train tracks used for camp entry, where some were selected for extermination or medical experimentation. Various groups such as Jews, Gypsies, and political prisoners lost their lives here. The tour includes barracks, latrines, and remains of four crematoriums destroyed to conceal the atrocities. You'll have 45 minutes for lunch before returning to Krakow, completing the tour in six and half hours.

Auschwitz Birkenau, Krakow Ghetto and Schindler's Factory

This option also starts with a pickup from your hotel. After visiting the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp, we'll stop at the Judenrampe, used by the SS until 1944 to offload Jews. Around 1:30 pm, we’ll return to Krakow for lunch at a traditional Polish restaurant. Afterward, at about 2:45 pm, a private tour in English through the Krakow Ghetto will take place, where you'll explore areas of persecution. The tour concludes at Oskar Schindler's Factory before returning you to your hotel.

Full Auschwitz-Birkenau Trip

This option includes a pickup from your hotel in Kraków with an English-speaking guide. The first stop is Auschwitz I, with both a Polish-speaking guide and an English interpreter. We'll also tour Auschwitz II-Birkenau and visit the Judenrampe. The trip includes a view of the Market Square in the town of Oswiecim and concludes at the Auschwitz III-Monowitz memorial before returning to your hotel in Krakow after 7 hours and 40 minutes.