Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
The largest German Nazi concentration and extermination camp, preserved today as a memorial and museum visited by millions each year.
Oświęcim · 70 km from Kraków
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History guide
Explore brief introductions to the places we visit together. Click any card to read more – ideal pre-trip reading.
Respectful · factual · easy to follow
Płaszów camp & the world of Schindler's List
A former forced labour and concentration camp on the edge of Kraków, closely tied to Schindler's story and the film based on it.
Within Kraków
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Schindler's Factory & the Kraków ghetto
A museum about Kraków under Nazi occupation, combined with the former ghetto area and memorials in Podgórze.
Podgórze district
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Wieliczka Salt Mine
One of the world's oldest salt mines, with underground chapels, lakes and sculptures carved from rock salt.
UNESCO World Heritage
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Project Riese & Owl Mountains
A network of underground tunnels and structures carved into the Owl Mountains in Lower Silesia, with debated wartime purposes.
Lower Silesia
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Stalag Luft III – "The Great Escape"
A prisoner-of-war camp for captured Allied aircrew, remembered for the mass escape attempt of March 1944.
Near Żagań
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