Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum

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Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum

  • Museum
  • Wieźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim, Poland
  • https://www.auschwitz.org
  • +483 3844 8099 reservation.office@auschwitz.org

Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp, where over 1.1 million men, women and children lost their lives during WWII. The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum was created by an act of the Polish Parliament in July 1947. Several hundred camp buildings and ruins stand on the 191-hectares museum grounds, including the ruins of the gas chambers and crematoria and over a dozen kilometres of fence.

Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum

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