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Auschwitz-Birkenau Skip-the-Line Guided Tour

1. Auschwitz-Birkenau Skip-the-Line Guided Tour

Avoid queues and save time on your visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau with skip-the-line tickets. Be met in Auschwitz I Museum by a local host who will accompany you to the museum and give you tips on how to best plan your visit to the museum. Pass through the ominous "Arbeit Macht Frei" (work will set you free) sign at the main entrance gate and follow your authorized official Auschwitz-Birkenau guide through Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II–Birkenau to take in the camp's emotional nature while learning the somber story of the place. Take your tour for around 3.5 hours with 1.5-2 hours at Auschwitz and 60-75 minutes at Birkenau.

Auschwitz-Birkenau: Skip the Line Entry Ticket & Guided Tour

2. Auschwitz-Birkenau: Skip the Line Entry Ticket & Guided Tour

Funded by the Nazi party in 1940, Auschwitz-Birkenau became both a symbol of human suffering and a witness to physical and emotional exhaustion. Learn about the history of the largest concentration camp from WWII with a professional licensed guide provided by the Auschwitz - Birkenau Museum. Your host will meet you at the entrance to the museum, where you will enter with your pre-booked ticket after passing through the security check. The first part of the museum visit takes approximately 1 hour 20 minutes to 1 hours 50 minutes. Between the first and second part there will be a 10-15 minute break, when you can eat your lunch. After the break, you will board a bus for the second part, a visit of Auschwitz II Birkenau, where you will spend around an hour with the same guide.

From Katowice: Auschwitz-Birkenau Skip-the-Line Guided Tour

3. From Katowice: Auschwitz-Birkenau Skip-the-Line Guided Tour

Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest of Nazi Germany’s concentration camps. Located in German-occupied southern Poland, it took its name from the nearby town of Oświęcim, situated about 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) from Katowice. The complex consisted of three main camps: Auschwitz I — the administrative centre; Auschwitz II (Birkenau) — an extermination camp; and Auschwitz III (Monowitz) — a work camp. On this guided tour of Auschwitz II-Birkenau, discover the terrifying but touching site where at least 1.1 million people were killed, 90% of them Jews from almost every European country. See the gas chambers where the vast majority were slaughtered using Zyklon B, and learn more about the Holocaust with your English-speaking guide. Hear about the most important original objects at Birkenau, and visit the permanent exhibition and original buildings on the grounds of the main camp (Auschwitz). Pay your respects and take some moments for reflection in a place laden with historic horrors.  With this tour, both skip-the-line entrance tickets and hotel pickup and drop-off in Katowice are included. However, if you are staying in a hostel, Airbnb, or any form of private residence, you will have to make your way to the meeting point at the local partner's office in the city center to begin your tour.

Auschwitz-Birkenau: Skip-the-Line Ticket and Guided Tour

4. Auschwitz-Birkenau: Skip-the-Line Ticket and Guided Tour

Avoid queues and save time on your visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau with skip-the-line tickets. Be met at our meeting point by a local host who will accompany you to the museum and give you tips on how to best plan your visit to the museum. Follow your authorized official Auschwitz-Birkenau guide through Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II–Birkenau in a group of up to 30 people and take in the emotional nature of the space while learning the somber story of the place. Take your tour for around 3.5 hours with 1.5-2 hours at Auschwitz and 60-75 minutes at Birkenau.

Auschwitz-Birkenau: Fast Track Entry Ticket & Guided Tour

5. Auschwitz-Birkenau: Fast Track Entry Ticket & Guided Tour

Visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp on a guided tour with a WWII expert. Explore the history of this infamous complex and learn about the tragic events that took place in it. See the original barracks in which prisoners were held to fully understand their situation. Meet your guide near the museum entrance, receive your entrance ticket, and go through security to join your group. Pass through the famous "Arbeit macht frei" gate to enter Auschwitz I, where your guide will show you around the original preserved site and explain its touching history. After a short break, visit the second camp in Birkenau, where mass murders were carried out as part of the Nazi "Final Solution to the Jewish Problem".

Auschwitz-Birkenau: Memorial Entry Ticket and Guided Tour

6. Auschwitz-Birkenau: Memorial Entry Ticket and Guided Tour

Come to Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum (listed by UNESCO as a Natural and Cultural Heritage site) using your own means of transport. Enjoy having tickets for a guided tour already with you and walk to the entrance. Meet your authorised, live guide on-site and follow them into Auschwitz I where you will have a chance to walk on the ground of the former camp, built in 1940 in the suburbs of Oswiecim. Use a headset provided to let you hear the guide's words no matter the distance or group size. Discover lives of people who were kept in this place while seeing exhibitions presented in barracks they used to live. The total number of deaths is estimated at over 1.5 million people, representing 28 nationalities. Nearly 90 percent of them were Jews. Once the first part of the tour is completed, take a bus available on-site and travel few minutes to Auschwitz II-Birkenau where the visit with the guide continues. Walk along the railway which facilitated transports to the other part of the camp. See ruins of gas chambers in which people "vanished" on a mass scale. You can contribute to keeping the memory of the atrocities commited there by coming there and learning more about it.

Oswiecim: Auschwitz-Birkenau Skip-The-Line Entrance Tickets

7. Oswiecim: Auschwitz-Birkenau Skip-The-Line Entrance Tickets

Visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, on the convenient tour with booked tickets, skip the tickets line access and a professional. Museum Visit Firstly visit Auschwitz I memorial site for approx. 2h with a, accompany of a professional guide through the whole camp. Enter to camp through the main gate with the inscription “Arbeit Macht Frei" (work sets you free). Pass brick Barack's, see the artefacts, photographs of prisoners, reconstructions of the whole complex as well the only remaining gas chambers and crematories. Then, continue the visit with a guide to the camp Birkenau for about 1h. Enter to horrifying wooden blocks, where almost 1000 people were living in inhuman conditions. See the ruins of has chambers and crematoria, a part of the industrial genocide of Nazi Germany.

Auschwitz: Fast-Track Entry Ticket and Guided Tour

8. Auschwitz: Fast-Track Entry Ticket and Guided Tour

Visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum with a skip-the-line entry ticket and guided tour in one. Explore the former Nazi concentration camp, preserved intact as a reminder of the crimes committed against humanity. Begin your tour at Auschwitz I, the former main camp and administrative headquarters of the camp complex. See countless photographs and belongings of the prisoners. Discover the spot where Rudolf Hess, the longest-serving commander of the camp, was later executed in 1947 as a war criminal. After a short break, head to Auschwitz II, the site of the concentration camp. Witness the ruins of crematoria, gas chambers, the railway platform, and other sights. Learn about the history of World War II and gain a deeper insight into the Holocaust from your guide.

Auschwitz-Birkenau: Memorial Entry Ticket with Guided Tour

9. Auschwitz-Birkenau: Memorial Entry Ticket with Guided Tour

Come to Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum (listed by UNESCO as a Natural and Cultural Heritage site) using your own means of transport. Enjoy having tickets for a guided tour already with you and walk to the entrance. Meet your authorised, live guide on-site and follow them into Auschwitz I where you will have a chance to walk on the ground of the former camp, built in 1940 in the suburbs of Oswiecim. Use a headset provided to let you hear the guide's words no matter the distance or group size. Discover the lives of people who were kept in this place while seeing exhibitions presented in the barracks where they used to live. The total number of deaths is estimated at over 1.5 million people, representing 28 nationalities. Nearly 90 per cent of them were Jews. After a short break, drive to Auschwitz II-Birkenau where the visit with the guide continues. Walk along the railway which facilitated transport to the other part of the camp. See ruins of gas chambers in which people "vanished" on a mass scale. You can contribute to keeping the memory of the atrocities committed there by coming there and learning more about it.

Auschwitz-Birkenau: Skip-the-Line Ticket and Guided Tour

10. Auschwitz-Birkenau: Skip-the-Line Ticket and Guided Tour

Learn about one of the darkest chapters in 20th-century European history on this guided tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. Make your own way to the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in your own vehicle or by public transport (bus or train). The journey from Krakow takes approximately 1.5 hours. When you arrive, meet your host who will give you your ticket and introduce you to the group. Skip the queue line with pre-booked entrance and pass through the airport security-style check before entering the Memorial. Inside the Auschwitz I museum, embark on a guided walking tour with a professional certified educator for approximately 1.5 - 2 hours. Next. proceed to the Auschwitz Birkenau II memorial for a 1-hour guided walking tour. After this, walk around on your own and spend time as long as you want inside Auschwitz-Birkenau II. Return to your hotel by bus, car or train yourself (transport is not included in the price). Please be aware that the lunch break is only about 10 minutes, so it is advisable if you bring a packed lunch with you.

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Our tour guide was amazing! So knowledgeable and engaging. The tour is so interesting - sad and surreal. It gives you a true insight into the lives of the people in the camps at that time. The guide was really good at delivering facts and information about the inhumanity without making it too overwhelming. Throughout the tour we were overcome with feelings of both respect and sympathy for the innocent people who lived in the camps.

Począwszy od komunikacji z biurem obsługi klienta, poprzez podróż w super komfortowym autokarze skończywszy na zwiedzaniu z przewodnikiem, który swoja wiedzą imponował wszystkim uczestnikom, oceniam tą atrakcję na 5*. Jestem pod ogromnym wrażeniem.

It was my second visit in Auschwitz Museum. I took my adult son with me. Everybody should experience it once a life at least. Our Guide was great and the tour was very touching.

Our guide was knowledgeable and fantastic. The tour was well organised and the guide was careful to avoid other groups so it never became overcrowded. Excellent experience.

From start to finish everything went as I expected.