{"id":13742,"date":"2026-03-21T21:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/?p=13742"},"modified":"2026-10-05T18:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:49:16","slug":"musee-auschwitz-birkenau-oswiecim-pologne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/poland\/auschwitz-birkenau-museum-oswiecim-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Mus\u00e9e d'Auschwitz Birkenau, O\u015bwi\u0119cim, Pologne"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum is located in the town of O\u015bwi\u0119cim, about 70 km west of Krak\u00f3w in southern Poland. The site consists of two main parts: Auschwitz I, the original concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in 1940, and Auschwitz II\u2013Birkenau, a much larger extermination camp built nearby in 1941. Today, the area is preserved as a museum and memorial dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust. In 1979, the site was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as a symbol of the crimes committed during World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Auschwitz-Birkenau is one of the most important historical sites in Europe, representing the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp complex. More than 1.1 million people, primarily Jews, as well as Poles, Roma, and others, were murdered there. The preserved structures\u2014including barracks, watchtowers, barbed wire fences, and railway tracks\u2014provide direct evidence of the camp\u2019s function. The museum also contains exhibitions with personal belongings of victims, documents, and photographs that illustrate the scale and human impact of the atrocities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visite du M\u00e9morial<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Visitors to the site can explore both Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II\u2013Birkenau. Auschwitz I houses the main museum exhibitions, including historical displays inside former prisoner blocks. Birkenau, located about 3 km away, is a vast open area with rows of barracks, ruins of gas chambers, and the iconic railway entrance gate. A free shuttle bus connects the two parts of the complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The museum can be reached from Krak\u00f3w by car, train, or bus in about 1\u20131.5 hours. Organized tours from Krak\u00f3w are also widely available and often include transportation and a guided visit. From O\u015bwi\u0119cim railway station, the museum is about 2 km away and can be reached by local bus or taxi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L\u2019entr\u00e9e au m\u00e9morial est gratuite, mais chaque visiteur doit r\u00e9server \u00e0 l\u2019avance une carte d\u2019entr\u00e9e sur visit.auschwitz.org\u00a0; aucune carte n\u2019est d\u00e9livr\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019entr\u00e9e. Les visites guid\u00e9es avec les \u00e9ducateurs du Mus\u00e9e sont payantes et vivement recommand\u00e9es. Le M\u00e9morial est ouvert toute l\u2019ann\u00e9e sauf le 1er janvier, le 25 d\u00e9cembre et le dimanche de P\u00e2ques, de 7h30 \u00e0 14h00 en d\u00e9cembre et jusqu\u2019\u00e0 19h00 en \u00e9t\u00e9\u00a0; arrivez au moins 30\u00a0minutes \u00e0 l\u2019avance pour le contr\u00f4le de s\u00e9curit\u00e9. Comptez environ 90\u00a0minutes pour chacun des deux camps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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M\u00e9morial et mus\u00e9e sur le site des anciens camps nazis allemands d\u2019Auschwitz I et de Birkenau \u00e0 O\u015bwi\u0119cim\u00a0; site UNESCO, entr\u00e9e gratuite avec une carte r\u00e9serv\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019avance.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,976,1077],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poland","category-museums","category-unesco-heritage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13742"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16991,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13742\/revisions\/16991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}