Lonely PlanetSep 2
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.
Dedicated to Roma people killed in the camps.
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