Auschwitz Day Trip

Visiting the memorial and museum of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp is essential for understanding the horrors of the Second World War. Discover its history on this day trip from Warsaw.

Auschwitz Day Trip

Many have attempted to describe the horrifying ordeal of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps of World War II, yet the horror defies words. Experiencing the museum and memorial of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp is a vital step in truly grasping the extent of these tragic events. To learn more about its history, pickup will be at your hotel in Warsaw at the indicated time, followed by a journey to this Nazi concentration camp.

After approximately 3 hours and 30 minutes of driving, you will arrive in O?wi?cim, a small town in southern Poland that witnessed horrendous acts by the Nazis between 1940 and 1945. During this time, the Third Reich constructed a series of concentration and extermination camps on the outskirts of O?wi?cim, where they committed unspeakable crimes against prisoners of war, Jews, and other ethnic groups. These were known as Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau, later converted into the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, founded in 1947.

Your guided tour of the former concentration camp will lead you through areas where inmates lived. The prison blocks and barracks retain a somber atmosphere, illustrating the harsh conditions forced upon the inhabitants, enclosed within the barbed wire that surrounded the camp. You will also visit the crematoriums and the gas chambers where over one million people were killed, and the railway whose tracks ended at Auschwitz, transporting countless prisoners to their deaths.

This day trip to Auschwitz is a profound experience; the memorial and museum serve not only to honor those who suffered and lost their lives but also to educate visitors globally to ensure that such atrocities never happen again.

After your guided tour of Auschwitz, the return drive to Warsaw will commence. You can expect to arrive back at your hotel approximately 15 hours after pickup.

Hotel Pickup

During the booking process, please specify the name of your hotel in Katowice to enable pickup at your accommodation.

Important

• The visit to the camp must be conducted with authorized camp personnel guides, not external guides. Guide confirmation is only guaranteed between 12 and 16 hours before the activity.
• All operators require a minimum group size to access the camp with a guide. If this minimum is not met, the activity may be canceled or rescheduled.
• Tickets and guides are secured as soon as the minimum group size is reached, but last-minute bookings may lead to unavailability of guides and potential cancellations.