Auschwitz was established by Germans in summer 1940 as a concentration camp, Auschwitz became the center for extermination of European Jews in 1942.  Nowadays, Auschwitz is the biggest cemetery in the world, along with a memorial and State museum. Your nearly 4 hours guided tour will begin in the main camp Auschwitz I.

Auschwitz is to the world a symbol of terror genocide and Holocaust. As a concentration camp was established by German Nazi by 1940 in the suburbs of the city of Oswiecim, which like other polish territories was occupied by the Third Reich during World War II. The city’s name was changed to Auschwitz which also became the name of the camp. In the following years the camp was expanded and consisted of three main parts Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II Birkenau and Auschwitz III Monowitz and about 50 sub-camps. Initially the prisoners and victims of the camp were Poles, later Soviet prisoners of war the Roma and the people of different nationalities were imprisoned here. Auschwitz became the center for extermination of European Jews in 1942. From the spring of that year, the camp became a site of the largest mass murder in the history of humankind. Which was perpetrated on European Jews within the plan of complete annihilation of this nation. The majority of the Jews deported to Auschwitz men, women and children were sent to death in the Birkenau gas chambers immediately upon arrival. In total the Germans murdered approximately 1.1 million people in Auschwitz mostly Jews as well as Poles the Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and representatives of other nationalities and minorities. In an attempt to cover the traces of their crimes, after the war the assessment burned documents demolished and destroyed the gas chambers and crematoria as well as other facilities. Prisoners who were capable of marching were evacuated deep into the Reich. Those who remained in the camp were liberated by soldiers of the Red Army on 27th of January 1945. In July 1947 a museum was established on the area of two surviving parts of the camp Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II Birkenau. Since 1979 the site has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Auschwitz II Birkenau that was in constants expansion from the end of 1941 was a different camp from Auschwitz.