We were granted exclusive access by Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum to film this 60 minute tour, allowing us to bring the exhibition into your classroom.
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Description
Established in 1940, Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest Nazi Germany's concentration and extermination camp.
Together with our Krakow guide Paulina Jurkowska-Pudełko and a Museum Educator Paweł Sawicki, we will visit both sites, walk inside the barracks, hear the stories of the victims of this tragedy and learn why it's so important not to forget the past.
This tour is specifically created for students, helping them receive a more significant understanding of this sombre page in history.
Details and tour topics
Feedback from teachers and students who have taken the tour
Tour Discussion Points
- The Story of Auschwitz: buildings, size of camp, numbers
- Inside the barracks / exhibitions: victim groups, archive photos from Birkenau, stories of the victims and perpetrators
- Material proof of crimes: personal effects
- Every day life of prisoners: dehumanisation, losing individuality
- Children in Auschwitz: experimenting on people
- Auschwitz as a business / profit earner
- The Block of Death (camp prison) & execution wall
- Birkenau site: size of camp, panoramic views
- Barracks, accommodation, living standards
- Survivors’ voices / books
Length: 56 mins
Guide: Paulina Jurkowska-Pudełko with Museum Educator Paweł Sawicki
Our students have given us some amazing feedback. They said it was "informative, insightful, eye-opening, a good alternative to going, glad I watched it" and one that I particularly liked, "respectful".
