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Prof. Marina Pignatelli has been appointed Honorary Consul of the Auschwitz Memorial in Portugal. She will support the actions undertaken by the Diplomacy of Remembrance of the Auschwitz Museum in this country.

More than 200,000 students from over 10,000 Italian schools took part on 26 January in a special, showcase online visit to the Auschwitz Memorial Site. This was made possible thanks to the platform “Auschwitz. In Front of Your Eyes”.

Starting March 1, individual visitors will be able to make reservations for all entry cards exclusively online through the official system at visit.auschwitz.org. This applies to both guided tours and free admission. The change will make it easier for visitors to plan their visits and eliminate queues at the Museum entrance

433 historical documents scheduled for sale at an auction house in Neuss, Germany, in November last year, were entrusted to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation. The official handover took place on 30 January at the seat of the parliament of the German federal state of North Rhine–Westphalia.

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

On January 27, 2026 a group 21 Survivors of Auschwitz gathered at the site of the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp. The event was held under the honorary patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland, Karol Nawrocki.