Ivan Demjanjuk – The Terrible from Treblinka Ivan Demjanjuk (or Demianiuk eng. John Demjanjuk) known as Ivan the Terrible from Treblinka was one of the most mysterious characters connected with history of extermination camps. He was strongly believed to have been a guard in Treblinka extermination camp and he was notorious for his unusual cruelty […]
Revolt and Escape from Sobibor Revolts and Escapes Table on Sobibor Rail Station Sobibor extermination camp was one of the best-secure among Nazi camps. It was also a camp with very hard living conditions, place of torment of thousands Jews. Number of Sobibor victims is estimated for about 250 thousand people. However this camp is […]
Auschwitz Tour Group Size Maximum Group Size The maximum group size for prebooked tours organized by Escape2Poland is 30 people on rare occasions (unless the museum is very busy and can not give us any additional guides). Whenever our group is over 11 people we provide headphones free of charge at the Auschwitz I camp […]
Auschwitz Entrance Fees Auschwitz Museum is open 7 days a week and it invites every visitor to come and see the tragic history of holocaust. There are some periods that entrance to the museum is free (usually early mornings or late afternoons). However it’s always worth to hire a guide, who can tell you a […]
Stutthof Concentration Camp Stutthof Concentration Camp was the first and the longest established Nazi extermination camp on the Polish territory. It was found on 2nd September 1939 and liquidated on 9th May 1945. During whole World War II it was a place of slave labor and extermination of about 65 thousand of people, especially Jews, […]
Kulmhof – Monument. (Fot. Jan Mehlich) About Kulmhof was the first extermination camp founded by the Nazis on the territory of Poland, it was founded in 1941 in Chełmno on the riverside of Ner river. The Nazis adopted a town park with a palace as a main camp base, while a few surrounding buildings were converted […]
Picture Source: www.gross-rosen.eu About Gross Rosen Concentration Camp Gross Rosen is Nazi concentration camp founded in 1940, near the Rogoznica village. During war those territories belonged to Germany. Nowadays it lays in Polish province Lower Silesia. Gross Rosen was first of all a labor camp. Among the prisoners there wasn’t many Jews. Poles belonged to […]
Amon Goeth was one of the most cruel Nazi criminals during World War II. He joined SS forces when he was only 22. It was the beginning of his “carrier”. He became famous as a commandant of Plaszow extermination camp. The best description of that beast are words of Jew who survived thank to Oscar […]
Plaszow is a Krakow district where in 1942 was founded Nazi labor camp and later also extermination camp. It was a place of torment for thousands of Jews from the liquidated in October 1942 Krakow Ghetto. Plaszow camp is famous because of Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List”. Territory of Plaszow camp in Krakow contained many factories, industrial […]
To keep humanity Prisoners are returning from work In Auschwitz Museum visitors can see exhibitions devoted to art created by prisoners of the concentration camp. This is one of the most touching parts of the museum. It shows that even in inhuman conditions people needed aesthetic experiences, beauty and emotions. Making art was a way […]