Calendar of events

On 14 August 1941, exactly 85 years ago, Franciscan friar Father Maximilian Maria Kolbe was killed in the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. The anniversary of this event was commemorated at the Memorial. A solemn Mass was celebrated near Block 11, which housed the camp prison and where the friar was murdered.

"History, Memory and Responsibility" is the title of the English-language seminar for journalists at the Auschwitz Memorial. It will take place from 5 to 8 October 2026 (October 5 & 8 are the arrival and departure days; tours on October 8 are optional).

Eighty-two years ago, on the night of 2-3 August 1944, the Germans liquidated the so-called family camp for Gypsies (Zigeunerfamilienlager) in Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Around 4,300 children, women and men, the last Roma prisoners of the camp, were murdered in the gas chambers.

'Memoria' is an online magazine dedicated to the history of Auschwitz, the Holocaust as well as memory and education around the world.

Below we publish the text of a joint declaration signed by 32 European Memorial Sites connected with crimes committed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during the Second World War.