2024:Tours and Side Events/Auschwitz
The Auschwitz concentration camp is about 40 km from Katowice.
See the official visiting guides and book a visit well in advance from the official website. Some suggested times follow.
2024-08-04
editSuggested meeting point and time: 7:40 at Katowice train station info point, to catch the 7:51 train arriving at 8:40 (see timetable); 15:30 at the exit of the museum to go back and process together.
- Interested people
- A couple of us have booked the 6h visit in English starting at 9:30. Nemo (talk) 20:23, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
- I booked a tour at 11:30 in English. さえぼー (talk) 19:54, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- For those who went today, what is the best way to get from Katowice (Hotel Diament Plaza Katowice) to there? Train? Is there any need to book tickets in advance for the ride? Laliv g (talk) 16:43, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
2024-08-06
edit- I've booked on to the 1145 tour on the Tuesday (6 August). HJ Mitchell (talk) 14:11, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
- I booked a tour (in Polish) at 11:00 (August 6) MarianaSenkiv (talk) 03:37, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- I've booked on to the 10:45 tour on the Tuesday (6 August) . Laliv g (talk) 14:47, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- I booked a tour (in Russian) for 09:15.Bosogo (talk) 00:26, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
2024-08-11
editSuggested meeting point and time: 7:40 at Katowice train station info point, to catch the 7:51 train arriving at 8:40 (see timetable); 15:30 at the exit of the museum to go back and process together. Train tickets via https://www.kolejeslaskie.com
- Interested people
- I am not able to visit Auschwitz prior to or during Wikimania. I have therefore booked the 6h visit in English starting at 9:30 on this day, the day after the conference concludes. Anyone wishing to join me is welcome to do so. Bahnfrend (talk) 14:55, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
- I am in the same situation as you, so I booked your same tour for the same hour 9:30 and same duration 6h. Hence, it would be a pleasure for me to meet you at the train station on the 11th and go to the tour together. Let's exchange numbers in the previous days. Gabriele Dini Ciacci
- I am interested to go to Auschwitz in this day Hanay (talk) 08:07, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- I have booked the last ticket for the 09:30 tour Geertivp (talk) 20:10, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- In addition to the Museum ticket I have booked a Flixbus ticket.
- I booked this tour, but my plans have changed and I will do a different tour. I have notified the ticket office so a place may become available. Bracteantha (talk) 00:20, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- I will be there too. Daniel Case (talk) 06:06, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- I would like to join... How do I book a ticket?שלומית ליר (talk) 13:54, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Hanay: @שלומית ליר: I suggest you contact Bracteantha, as he seems to have a spare ticket for our tour.
- In further reply to all of the responses to my post at the top of this string, I'm happy to be an informal leader of the group. I should also be easy to spot at Wikimania or the Katowice railway station, as I'm very tall and will be wearing a name badge with "Bahnfrend" on it.
- Those who haven't yet obtained a ticket for a tour will probably be unable to have an English language tour with our group (unless you can obtain Bracteantha's ticket), because all of the tickets that were on sale from the site for tours in English on 11 August (ie the whole day) have sold out. If you still want to tour on that day, you might wish to try the tour companies that organise tours from Katowice - google "auschwitz tour from Katowice" to find them. Bahnfrend (talk) 14:12, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- User:Bahnfrend 2 or 3 of use would be interested in joining... But sounds like it is hard to get tickets. I see one spot and it says for Polish. Not sure if one is allowed to join a Polish group without knowing any Polish. Doc James (talk) 21:52, 2 August 2024 (UTC)