Years of experience and cooperation with various Holocaust Education Centers in the world have thought us of different motivations and needs of visitors coming to see Auschwitz-Birkenau. Understanding the serious drawbacks of growing mass tourist visits we decided to offer one or few days  academically developed and experience-based itineraries.

Those Holocaust Study itineraries are mainly aimed at students of various age and members of Jewish communities and organizations from the United States, Canada, Australia, Israel, Poland, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Taking into account the special needs of our partners we always shape the program to be a tailor-made offer.

EXEMPLARY  ITINERARIES

We  always suggest to visit Auschwitz and Birkenau on a full day tour which begins in Cracow and gives the full chronology of Holocaust events on this territory. Before driving to Auschwitz and Birkenau we make an introductory visit to the Cracow Ghetto, Schinlder's Factory and Plaszow Camp territory. These 2 hours spent in the morning in Cracow help to understand the fate of Polish Jews and prepare for the more complete visit to Auschwitz and Birkanau. Additionally, this makes us start  in Auschwitz Museum around noon so after all the mass bus tours which come in the morning. In this way we are not distracted by the crowds of people.

Starting at noon leaves us a lot of time to explore Auschwitz and Birkenau calmly. If time allows, we also visit the only remaining synagogue in the city of Oswiecim/Auschwitz with its little museum devoted to life in Shtetl.

1. AUSCHWITZ ITINERARY

From Shtetl through Getto to Auschwitz. History of life and death.

9:00 a.m. - Pick up at any of the Cracow's hotels, Cracow-Balice Airport or Katowice-Pyrzowice Airport

9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m - Visit to Podgorze, part of Cracow changed into Ghetto by the Natzis during WW II. Following the traces of Schindler List and visit to the Schindler's Factory.

Drive through the territory of Plaszow former Labour Camp in the vicinity of Cracow. Transitory Camp for Hungarian Jews on their way to Auschwitz.

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Transfer from Cracow through Monowitz (former IG Farben) to Auschwitz Museum

12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. - Visit to Auschwitz I Museum Exhibition - Concentration Camp and international symbol of Holocaust.

2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. - coffee/snack break

3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. - Visit to Birkeanu Museum Exhibition - Extermination Camp

4.30 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. - Transfer from Oswiecim to Cracow

* 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Optional visit to the recently restored Synagogue in Oswiecim town (Auschwitz) and Jewish Education Center. Possibility of watching documental movies from pre-war Oswiecim (shtetl).

5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Transfer from Oswiecim to Cracow

6:00 p.m. / 7:00 p.m. - Drop off at any of the Cracow's hotels, Cracow-Balice Airport or Katowice-Pyrzowice Airport

2. AUSCHWITZ ITINERARY

From Kazmierz through Getto to Auschwitz. History of life and death.

9:00 a.m. - Pick up at any of the Cracow's hotels, Cracow-Balice Airport or Katowice-Pyrzowice Airport

9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m - Visit to Kazimierz - the former Jewish district of Cracow. Entrance to the Remuh synagogue and cemetery. Drive through Podgorze, part of Cracow changed into Ghetto by the Natzis during WW II. Following the traces of Schindler's List.

Drive through the territory of Plaszow former Labour Camp in the vicinity of Cracow. Transitory Camp for Hungarian Jews on their way to Auschwitz.

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Transfer from Cracow through Monowitz (former IG Farben) to Auschwitz Museum

12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. - Visit to Auschwitz I Museum Exhibition - Concentration Camp and international symbol of Holocaust.

2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. - coffee/snack break

3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. - Visit to Birkeanu Museum Exhibition - Extermination Camp

4.30 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. - Transfer from Oswiecim to Cracow

* 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Optional visit to the recently restored Synagogue in Oswiecim town (Auschwitz) and Jewish Education Center. Possibility of watching documental movies from pre-war Oswiecim (shtetl).

5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m - Transfer from Oswiecim to Cracow

6:00 p.m. / 7:00 p.m. - Drop off at any of the Cracow's hotels, Cracow-Balice Airport or Katowice-Pyrzowice Airport

3. HOLOCAUST SITES ITINERARY

Few days expert, group tour of Lublin/Majdanek and Action Reinchard Death Camps of Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor.

The three death camps of Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor represent the ultimate evil of the German Nazis and ultimate destruction of Polish Jewry. Those places are often scarcely known or recognized because the Nazis did they best so that we would not remember them.