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MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU FORMER GERMAN NAZI
CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP

Library - Online Catalogue

The Museum library holdings comprise approximately 50 thousand volumes and 2.5 thousand periodicals devoted to the history of the Second World War, the Third Reich, the occupation, and the fate of victims in prisons and concentration camps, with special attention to the history of Auschwitz. The library resources also include dozens of maps.

The book collection

The books in the collection, in many languages, consist above all of published original sources and scholarly studies, but also include literary works (memoirs, novels, short stories, poems, and even plays). The library also has a collection of German publications (books and periodicals) from the Third Reich period (“Hitleriana”). These books deal mainly with political and social issues in Nazi Germany.

Using the library

The library collections are intended for the use of the Museum research staff, historians from Poland and other countries, students, journalists, and teachers. Museum employees can borrow items, while people from outside the Museum can use them in the reading room (6 desks and 2 computer workstations). The libraries can also order books from other libraries through inter-library loan.

Hours

From Monday to Friday 7:30-14.30

On-line catalogue

Click the link to access the on-line catalogue of the library.

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Call for participants of the German-Polish seminar “How to Deal with a Difficult Past?”

07-04-2026
The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, in cooperation with the Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen Museums and Memorials, introduces the call for participants for the fourth edition of the seminar How to Deal with a Difficult Past? – Educational Perspectives on National Socialism, Shoah, and the Second World War.

Memoria Magazine no. 102

31-03-2026
'Memoria' is an online magazine dedicated to the history of Auschwitz, the Holocaust as well as memory and education around the world.

“Deportations of Jews from Slovakia to Auschwitz.” New lesson and podcast now available

26-03-2026
The deportations of Jews from Slovakia to the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz are the focus of a new online lesson and an episode of the On Auschwitz podcast series, prepared by the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust.

Sharing memory. Summary of the international youth project NESHAMA

20-03-2026
More than 200 young people and 40 teachers from five countries, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, and Poland, took part in a seminar at the Auschwitz Museum from 15 to 17 March. It was the culmination of the year-long project NESHAMA – Network for European Youth for Holocaust Remembrance.

Call for participants: International Summer Academies 2026 (level 1 and 2)

09-03-2026
The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz Memorial will organize two editions of the International Summer Academy in 2026 – the 1st and 2nd level seminars.
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