Sightseeing in the near and far surroundings
Sights in the surrounding area
Krakow - Kazimierz
Synagogues, prayer houses, cemeteries, Hebrew inscriptions on the facades, Stars of David - there are still some moving traces of Jewish life in Kazimierz.
Oskar Schindler
He saved over a thousand innocent people from death in concentration camps at the risk of his own life. Former enamelware factory in Krakow, approx. 60 km from Oswiecim.
KZ Plaszow
Nazi concentration camp in Płaszów, a suburb south-east of Krakow, approx. 62 km from Oswiecim.
KL Majdanek
The Lublin concentration camp was located in eastern Poland near the town of Majdanek near Lublin and was the first concentration camp established by the SS in the so-called Generalgouvernement.
Gross-Rosen
The Groß-Rosen camp was a concentration camp in Lower Silesia from August 1940 to February 1945. Initially, Groß-Rosen was a branch of Sachsenhausen concentration camp, but in May 1941 it was given the status of an independent concentration camp.