According to Father Robert Necek, a spokesman for Krakow Archbishop, the German born Pope personally asked that he be allowed to pray at Auschwitz when he visits Poland.
At least 1.1 million men, women and children perished in the camp during World War II, at the hands of the Nazis.
Benedict XVI will also visit the capital, Warsaw, the shrine of the Black Madonna in Czestochowa, and the southern city of Krakow.
He will arrive in Poland, for his Vatican approved trip, on May 25 and leave May 28.
He was initially scheduled to visit Poland in June but changed the date to avoid a clash with the soccer World Cup in Germany.
A delegate from the Vatican, Alberto Gasbarri, visited Poland earlier this month to prepare for the Pope’s visit.
Benedict XVI was elected in April 2005, following the death at the beginning of that month of the immensely popular John Paul II.
It will be the Pope’s second foreign trip since his election to the papacy.
He visited Germany for the Roman Catholic Church's World Youth Day celebrations in August.