Sightseeing in the near and far surroundings
Sights in the surrounding area
![Krakau Stadtteil Kazimierz](https://www.auschwitz-besucher.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Krakau-Kazimierz.jpg)
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.
![Schindlers-Emailwarenfabrik](https://www.auschwitz-besucher.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Schindlers-Emailwarenfabrik.jpg)
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.
![Mahnmal für die Opfer des KZ Plaszow](https://www.auschwitz-besucher.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Krakau-Plaszow.jpg)
KZ Plaszow
Nazi concentration camp in Płaszów, a suburb south-east of Krakow, approx. 62 km from Oswiecim.
![Konzentrationslager Majdanek bei Lublin](https://www.auschwitz-besucher.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lublin-Majdanek.jpg)
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.
![KZ Gross-Rosen Haupteingangsgebäude](https://www.auschwitz-besucher.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Gross-Rosen_Eingang_01.jpg)
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.