Lonely PlanetSep 2, 2026
A guide to touring Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland
Get more from touring the moving and educational memorial and museum at Auschwitz-Birkenau with this guide.
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- Museum of the Second World WarMuseumGdańsk, PolandIts exhibits opened in 2017.
- Auschwitz II-BirkenauSightOświęcim, PolandVast camp with railroad entrance and Selektion ramp.
- Block 27SightOświęcim, PolandExhibits include reproductions of children's drawings.
- Block 6SightOświęcim, PolandChronicles abuses faced by prisoners.
- Block 18SightOświęcim, PolandDetails the extermination of Hungarian Jews.
- Block 21SightOświęcim, PolandExplores the Dutch role in the Holocaust.
- Block 20SightOświęcim, PolandCovers French involvement in the Holocaust.
- Main Camp BathhouseSightOświęcim, PolandDisplays family photos found among victims' belongings.
- Auschwitz III-MonowitzSightOświęcim, PolandIndustrial complex operated using slave labor.
- Chevra Lomdei Mishnayot SynagogueSightOświęcim, PolandOnly one of Oświęcim's original 20 synagogues to survive.
- Café BergsonRestaurantOświęcim, PolandCafe at Auschwitz Jewish Center for coffee and books.
- Great Synagogue Memorial ParkSightOświęcim, PolandRecalls the place of worship destroyed by German soldiers.
- Jewish CemeterySightOświęcim, PolandFounded in 1784, restored after being ransacked.
- Center for Roma History and CultureMuseumOświęcim, PolandDedicated to Roma people killed in the camps.
- Arbeit Mach FreiSightOświęcim, PolandSinister sign at the entrance to Auschwitz I.
- Block 4SightOświęcim, PolandProvides a haunting overview of the Holocaust.
- Oskar Schindler’s Enamel FactoryMuseumKrakow, Poland
- Auschwitz Jewish CenterMuseumOświęcim, Poland