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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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Volunteer Academy 2026 (September) - call for participants until June 28

19-06-2026
The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum invites adults to take part in the “Volunteer Academy” project, which will take place from 12 to 18 September 2026 at the Auschwitz Memorial.

Prof. Nora Fischbach appointed Honorary Consul of the Auschwitz Memorial in Venezuela

16-06-2026
Prof. Nora Fischbach has been appointed Honorary Consul of the Auschwitz Memorial in Venezuela. She will support activities undertaken in the country as part of the Diplomacy of Remembrance of the Auschwitz Memorial.

86th anniversary of the deportation of the first Poles to KL Auschwitz - National Day of Remembrance

14-06-2026
June 14, 1940, is recognized as the date marking the beginning of the operation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz.

Traces of post-war memory at the Auschwitz Memorial

13-06-2026
At the entrance to the historic grounds of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz I, visitors can see the first conserved postwar memory markers which until now had been located on authentic post-camp buildings or within the historic space of the former camp.

International fundraising campaign for the acquisition and preservation of historical documents

08-06-2026
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation has launched the international fundraising campaign “Camp Mail – Purchase of Documents,” aimed at acquiring and preserving original documents related to German Nazi concentration and extermination camps.
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