Auschwitz Prisoners' Evacuation Trail

The Auschwitz Prisoners' Evacuation Trail is a blue hiking trail 91 km long, linking Oświęcim with Wodzisław Śląski. It commemorates the death march of January 1945, in which prisoners of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp were led out to the railway station in Wodzisław Śląski. The trail lies in the Lesser Poland and Silesian voivodeships and runs near the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

Route

The route has two stages. From Oświęcim it leads through Brzezinka, Pławy, Harmęże, Brzeszcze and Góra. In the Silesian Voivodeship the trail passes through Miedźna, Pszczyna, Mizerów, Studzionka, Pawłowice, Jastrzębie-Zdrój and Mszana, and ends in Wodzisław Śląski.

Practical information

• Waymarking: blue.
• The trail is a form of commemoration, not a tourist route in the usual sense. The seriousness of the place is to be respected when walking it.
• Check the current route and the state of the waymarking before setting out.