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Selection Site After Arrival – Birkenau Entrance Gate loop from Auschwitz II-Birkenau

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Oświęcim

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Selection Site After Arrival – Birkenau Entrance Gate loop from Auschwitz II-Birkenau

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Selection Site After Arrival – Birkenau Entrance Gate loop from Auschwitz II-Birkenau

00:43

2.89km

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: May 16, 2026

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98 m

Selection Site After Arrival

Highlight • Historical Site

It's hard to imagine that here, with a hand to the left or to the right, it was determined whether you were immediately taken to the gas chamber or entered the camp.

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330 m

Auschwitz-Birkenau Main Gate at Sunset

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If this gateway is not already an impressive sight, the sunset sky brings even more power

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479 m

Birkenau Entrance Gate

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Birkenau was the largest of the more than 40 camps and sub-camps that made up the Auschwitz concentration camp complex. It was built by Nazi Germany during World War II …

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531 m

Gate of Death, Auschwitz II–Birkenau

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Anyone who ever came to the former Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp surrounded by a barbed wire fence had to first pass through the main entrance gate known as the "Gate …

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1.38 km

Ruins of Crematorium III, Auschwitz-Birkenau

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After Himmler's second visit to the camps in mid-July 1942, when he assessed the efficiency of the provisional gas chambers as insufficient, a plan was developed to create extermination facilities on a scale never seen before.

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1.60 km

International Monument to the Victims of Auschwitz–Birkenau

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On April 16, 1967, the International Monument to the Camp Victims was unveiled at the site of the former German KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau. It commemorates at least 1.1 million people, …

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2.49 km

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and Memorial

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Tickets are free and are collected at the ticket office, in front of the entrance to the Auschwitz I Museum.
From 2020, you also need a ticket to enter Camp …

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2.62 km

Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp

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Every conscious person should know what Auschwitz-Birkenau means.
Only when they see with their own eyes how huge this death factory was, can they fully grasp what happened in this …

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2.89 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

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1.77 km

982 m

133 m

Surfaces

1.74 km

611 m

319 m

213 m

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Wednesday 20 May

21°C

9°C

76 %

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Selection Site After Arrival – Birkenau Entrance Gate loop from Auschwitz II-Birkenau

Selection Site After Arrival

Auschwitz-Birkenau Main Gate at Sunset

Birkenau Entrance Gate

Gate of Death, Auschwitz II–Birkenau

Ruins of Crematorium III, Auschwitz-Birkenau

International Monument to the Victims of Auschwitz–Birkenau

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and Memorial

Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp

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