Private Tour From Prague To Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial
Our guide will pick you up at the place of your stay in Prague. The drive from Prague to Auschwitz lasts approximately 5 hours. On the way we can stop to make a coffee/restroom break. After we arrive, we will tour Auschwitz I which served as the administrative center of the camp. Then we will move to Auschwitz II Birkenau which served as a death camp. We will visit barracks, latrines, destroyed crematoria and solitary prison cells. We will go inside a gas chamber as well. We will see thousands of personal objects, a true testimony to the scale of Holocaust.
Auschwitz I
The first of the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, it was founded on 27. April 1940 on the direct order of Himmler. The nazis turned what was originally Polish barracks into a concentration camp. Two days later the notorious Rudolf Höss became the camp leader. Most of the early prisoners worked on the enlargement of the camp. The camp was originally meant for Polish intelligence prisoners however later it was decided to play a major role in Holocaust. In 1941 an industrial complex of I. G. Farben was built next to the camp. After Hitler’s attact on the Soviet Union, additional camps Auschwitz II Birkenau and Auschwitz III were built. The overall capacity of the camp was meant to be 125 000 prisoners. It was in Auschwitz I that the gas Cyclon B was used for the first time during an execution of Soviet POWs.
Auschwitz II Birkenau
Auschwitz II served as a death camp. It was founded in October 1941. Over the course of 3.5 years approximately 1.4 million people were murdered there, 90% of which were Jews. Most victims were killed in gas chambers with Cyklon B. Others died from lack of nutrition, hard labor, injuries, suicides, beatings, individual executions, various diseases or pseudo-scientific experiments.
