"Auschwitz in Front of Your Eyes" is an application through which millions of people from around the world will gain access to education conducted directly from the authentic Memorial Site. It allows an online guided tour of the former German Nazi camp.

All over the world, Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror, genocide, and the Shoah. It was established by Germans in 1940, in the suburbs of Oswiecim, a Polish city that was annexed to the Third Reich by the Nazis.

It is essential to visit both parts of the camp, Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau, in order to acquire a proper sense of the place that has become the symbol of the Holocaust of the European Jews as well as Nazi crimes againt Poles, Romas and other groups.

• The grounds and buildings of the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau camps are open to visitors. The duration of a visit is determined solely by the individual interests and needs of the visitors. As a minimum, however, at least three-and-a-half hours should be reserved.

The State Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum provides a full Internet service in English and Polish. In particular we recommend pages dedicated to the history of the former Nazi concentration camp, the organization of visits to the Memorial and a series of educational programmes.

auschwitz-birkenau — historia y presente El Museo Estatal Auschwitz-Birkenau ofrece un completo servidor de internet en inglés y polaco. De forma particular recomendamos las subpáginas dedicadas a la historia del antiguo campo de concentración y exterminio alemán nazi así como a la organización de la visita al Lugar de la Memoria y a ...

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On 27 January 2025, we will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. The main commemoration will begin at 4.00 pm in a special tent that will be built over the gate to the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp.

We offer visitors several options for guided tours. Each includes tours of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau. • General tours (3,5 h) • Guided tours for individual visitors (3,5 h) • One or two-day study tours (6 h or 3+3 h) • General tours - shorter version before closing hours (2,5 h) • Online tour (2 h)

Auschwitz (1940-1945), one of four Nazi concentration camps founded in occupied territory that was part of the prewar Polish state (the other three were at Majdanek, Warsaw, and Płaszów), was the largest Nazi concentration camp—a place for the gradual annihilation of prisoners—and, at the same time, the largest center for the immediate ...