6 hour one day study tour at Auschwitz

We visited Auschwitz several years ago and took the general tour which was very informative. At that time, we were able to go through "Kanada" on our own, following the Birkenau portion of the tour. We found it very moving and worthwhile. I recently read that the Kanada portion of the camp was temporarily closed. I would suggest confirming that it will in fact be a part of the 6 hour tour if that is what you want to see.

Thank you for your reply. You mentioned it was moving. Am I correct there are items from prisoners in the warehouse to see? I emailed Auschwitz asking the same question I ask on The Rick Steve's Forum. Hopefully they will respond and let us know if "Kanada" is going to be open. Thank you again for your response.

Yes, there were items that were confiscated from the prisoners. There was also a large display of family photographs.

Thank you

Am I correct there are items from prisoners in the warehouse to see?

Note that there are also chilling displays of personal items on the "standard" tour in Auschwitz, but the individual photographs [think mug shots], showing the date they arrived at the camp as well as the day they died, are actually more compelling.

While you are in that part of the world, keep your eye out for the Stolpersteine brass plaques. They are sobering and haunting & will be embedded in the pavement. We have seen them in Prague, Salzburg, Munich, Berlin, Amsterdam, Budapest and Ljubljana just to name a few places. https://www.stolpersteine.eu/en/home

Thanks for mentioning the Stolpersteine brass plaques. We were in Germany on a Rick Steve's tour last year and our local guide pointed these out. We will definitely be on the lookout for them.

We just did the 6 hour study tour in April and were really glad that we did. However, Kanada was closed for restoration and we did not get to go in. I had seen the closing information on the website I was of course disappointed, but at least I knew ahead of time. We did enter some unrestored buildings that our guide had to unlock for us, and we went up the tower at Birkenau which the other groups did not appear to do (but I am not sure about this). Again, our guide unlocked the door for us. Regardless of the Kanada situation, we are glad that we did the 6 hour tour. It was a smaller and more serious group (15) and everyone in the group was fairly well versed in Holocaust history, not just ticking Auschwitz off a list then heading to the salt mine, so a very worthwhile experience.
You can look on the Auschwitz website and somewhere there is a list of areas that are temporarily closed to visitors. I think Kanada is closed for a while.

To add to others' comments on the Solpersteine- we aren't "night life" people, but after dinner we like to go for a walk when the streets are quiet and we look for the stones. If you train yourself to look for the Solpersteine, you will find them in many places, especially in old Jewish districts and near the door frames. Do a little research to understand how to read them. Very sobering.