Auschwitz I has got a large number of exhibition buildings. The main exhibition includes blocks nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, and 11. In addition, there are so-called national exhibitions: block no. 13—The Destruction of the European Roma; block no. 14— Russian exhibition: Tragedy. Valour. Liberation; block no. 15— The Struggle and Martyrdom of the Polish Nation 1939‒1945; block no. 16—The Tragedy of the Slovakian Jews, and Prisoners from the Czech Lands in Auschwitz Concentration Camp; block no. 18—The Citizen Betrayed: A Remembrance of Holocaust Victims from Hungary; block no. 20—Deportees from France to Auschwitz Concentration Camp: March 27, 1942‒January 27, 1945, and Belgium 1940‒1945: The Occupation and Deportation to Auschwitz Concentration Camp; block no. 21—The Persecution and Deportation of Jews from The Netherlands in the Years 1940—1945; block no. 27—Shoah. National exhibitions are extremely rich in factual information and comprehensively present the history of nations or of the Jewish population in each country during the war. We would like to include two national exhibitions in the tour: block 18—the Hungarian exhibition and block 27—the Jewish exhibition. The last building, which also is one of the most important elements of the grounds of the former Auschwitz I camp, is the building of the gas chamber and crematorium no. 1.

Our Premium visit includes:

Block no. 3—the authentic conditions of the prisoners. Since the liberation of the camp, the interior of the blocks has been preserved almost intact. It comprises rooms for prisoners, a washroom, toilets and other areas, furnished with original strawbeds, bunks and other elements of block furnishing.

Block no. 4—the main exhibition on the extermination of European Jews. We are here to get information on the selection process and to see the original photos taken by the Nazis themselves, and found after the war by Lili Jacob-Meyer. In addition, we can find there a model of the gas chamber and crematorium no. 2, as well as the victims’ hair.

Block no. 5—a place of reflection and contemplation. Visitors have an opportunity to see original items found by Soviet soldiers when the camp was liberated: the personal belongings brought by the Jews—eyeglasses, suitcases, shoes, brushes, and other things.

Block no. 11—the camp prison. The place of the brutal interrogations and tortures carried out by the Nazis on the political prisoners. Visitors may also see the basement including number of cells used for punishments and tortures.

Block no. 27—Yad Vashem exhibition (previously so called the Jewish Block). This is the most recent exhibition—it was opened in 2013. It shows Jewish life in prewar Europe, the Nazi ideology, and the extermination of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe. The exhibition also includes testimonies of survivors and artistic sketches made by children during the war, and recreated there by an Israeli artist. The last element of the exhibitionis the “Book of Names” with the names of the victims of the Holocaust collected by the Yad Vashem Institute.

The gas chamber and crematorium no. 1—the first place of mass extermination of Jews in Auschwitz-Birkenau. The crematorium operated until the summer of 1943. The estimated number of corpses cremated there is about 70 thousand.

Certainly we are in a position to have time for additional expositions, but these would be visited individually by our guests. 

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