Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Oświęcim

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Get more from touring the moving and educational memorial and museum at Auschwitz-Birkenau with this guide.

Vast camp with railroad entrance and Selektion ramp.

18 things in this story

Auschwitz II-BirkenauSightVast camp with railroad entrance and Selektion ramp.
Block 27SightExhibits include reproductions of children's drawings.
Block 6SightChronicles abuses faced by prisoners.
Block 18SightDetails the extermination of Hungarian Jews.
Block 21SightExplores the Dutch role in the Holocaust.
Block 20SightCovers French involvement in the Holocaust.
Main Camp BathhouseSightDisplays family photos found among victims' belongings.
Auschwitz III-MonowitzSightIndustrial complex operated using slave labor.
Chevra Lomdei Mishnayot SynagogueSightOnly one of Oświęcim's original 20 synagogues to survive.
Café BergsonRestaurantCafe at Auschwitz Jewish Center for coffee and books.
Great Synagogue Memorial ParkSightRecalls the place of worship destroyed by German soldiers.
Jewish CemeterySightFounded in 1784, restored after being ransacked.
Center for Roma History and CultureMuseumDedicated to Roma people killed in the camps.
Arbeit Mach FreiSightSinister sign at the entrance to Auschwitz I.
Block 4SightProvides a haunting overview of the Holocaust.
Auschwitz Jewish CenterMuseum
Elsewhere
Museum of the Second World WarMuseumGdańsk, PolandIts exhibits opened in 2017.
Oskar Schindler’s Enamel FactoryMuseumKrakow, Poland

Auschwitz II-Birkenau