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Invitation: "From the Litzmannstadt Ghetto to KL Auschwitz" - educational session on 7 October 2021
02-09-2021
International Summer Academy in English
05-08-2021
Commemoration of the 77th anniversary of the liquidation of the Roma camp in Auschwitz
05-08-2021
On the night of August 2/3, 1944, in Auschwitz II-Birkenau the Germans liquidated the so-called family camp for Gypsies (Zigeunerfamilienlager). About 4,300 children, women and men, the last Roma prisoners of the camp, were murdered in gas chambers. Today, August 2 is celebrated in Poland as the Sinti and Roma Genocide Remebrance Day. The ceremony was attended by representatives of state authorities, ambassadors, representatives of local authorities, cultural institutions and museums. During the celebrations, Director Cywiński presented Romani Rose with the “Light of Remembrance”, the highest award at the Memorial, which is awarded to people who have contributed most to education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust.