This is our offer for those who wish to visit the Memorial site on their own, without the local guide. This is a private, direct door-to-door transfer with our driver’s waiting time and a return transfer. We’re going to arrive about half an hour before your tour, as there’s about 20-25 minute time required for the security check and entrance procedures.

Make your visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum as easy as possible on this tour from Krakow. In a group limited to 12 people, travel to the former Nazi concentration camp in a comfortable bus before embarking on a shared guided tour of the complex. Hotel pickup in Krakow and headsets are included.

Uncover the dark history of Nazi-occupied Poland on a moving full-day tour from Krakow. Take a tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps; learn more about Poland’s WWII history; and visit the Oskar Schindler Factory to discover the true story behind Steven Spielberg’s ‘Schindler’s List’. Hotel pickup and drop-off is included.

One of Poland’s most interesting World War II sites, Majdanek was a Nazi concentration and extermination camp operated by the Schutzstaffel (SS) during the German occupation of Poland in World War II from 1st October 1941 until 22nd July 22 1944 and was used to kill people on an industrial scale. Majdanek Concentration Camp was located on the outskirts of the city of Lublin and was initially intended for forced labour. It soon became part of Operation Reinhard, the secretive German plan to exterminate Polish Jews in the General Government district of German-occupied Poland. The 270 hectare camp was one of the largest of the Nazi run death camps with seven gas chambers, two wooden gallows and 227 structures. Unlike other camps, Majdanek was captured nearly intact due to the rapid advance of the Soviet Army; which did not allow the SS sufficient time to destroy the infrastructure and evidence of war crimes.

The Riese Complex was a Nazi Germany construction project from 1943 to 1945 consisting of seven top-secret underground structures located in the Owl Mountains and Książ Castle in Lower Silesia. The actual purpose of the project remains unclear and Riese remains one of World War II’s greatest mysteries mainly due to a lack of documentation. Some historians suggest that the structures were planned as a network of underground factories and the tunnels below Książ Castle were to house an HQ element, perhaps an addition to Hitler’s collection of reinforced command centres. Two things are certain, the size of the project was immense and none of the constructions were finished. Only a few tunnels were reinforced with concrete. Project Riese was abandoned at the initial stage of construction and only 9 km (25,000 m2, 100,000 m3) of tunnels were dug out.

Westerplatte is a peninsula in Gdańsk; famous for the Battle of Westerplatte on 1st September 1939, which was the first engagement between German and Polish forces during the invasion of Poland and thus the beginning and the first battle of World War II. During the aftermath of World War I and the reestablishment of Polish independence, much of the region surrounding Gdańsk became a part of the Second Polish Republic with the exception of Gdańsk itself; which became an independent city state. At the time, Gdańsk was known as Danzig and was a historically important port city; which had a majority German population. The independent city state became known as the Free City of Danzig; which was nominally administered by the League of Nations but in reality, it became increasingly allied with Germany. In 1921, the League of Nations granted Poland the right to establish a garrison and ammunition depot close to the Free City.

Stutthof was the first Nazi concentration camp established outside of Germany during World War II, located in a wooded area near a small town called Stutthof (now named Sztutowo) and 34km east of the Free City of Danzig (now Gdansk). The camp was established directly after the invasion of Poland and was initially designated as a civilian internment camp prior to becoming a labour education camp in November 1941 and finally a regular concentration camp in January 1942. Before the war even began, the German Selbstschutz (ethnic-German self-protection units) had created lists of people that were to be arrested and detained. The Nazi authorities had also secretly started to review suitable locations to establish concentration camps in the area.

Łambinowice is a village in Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland and was the location of Camp Lamsdorf (later known as Camp Łambinowice); which served as a prisoner of war camp during the Franco-Prussian War, First World War and Second World War. During World War II, the camp reopened on 3rd September 1939 just two days after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, initially to house Polish prisoners. Throughout the war, more than 300,000 Allied and Soviet prisoners passed through the gates of the camp at Lamsdorf. The base camp was given the designation Stalag VIII-B. In 1941 a separate camp, Stalag VIII-F was set up close by to house the Soviet prisoners. In 1943, the Lamsdorf camp was split up, and many of the prisoners were transferred to two new base camps.

Miedzyrzecz Reinforced Region is a fortification system built between 1933 and 1944 located between the Oder and Warta rivers in the Lubusz region. It stretches close to 80km between the cities of Gorzow Wielkopolski and Zielona Gora. Built by Nazi Germany with the purpose of protecting the most vital section of the eastern border of Germany, Miedzyrzecz Reinforced Region was a line of 106 reinforced concrete bunkers with 25cm thick walls, steel domes and concrete antitank barriers called “dragon teeth”. 21 of the concrete bunkers were connected by a 30 km network of 40m deep underground tunnels containing railway stations, war rooms, workshops, engine rooms, stockrooms and barracks.