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"Will We Survive Long Enough to See Another Day?" is the title of an online educational session that will take place on 21 September 2023. It is organized by the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust in cooperation with the Terezín Memorial. The entire session will be simultaneously translated into English, Czech, and Polish.

"The Volunteer Academy" is a project of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz Museum, aimed at individuals interested in the history of the Auschwitz camp and volunteering in the Archives of the Memorial. The Academy will take place online between 13 October and 23 November. The programe will be conducted in English.

More than 100 people, mainly teachers from all over Poland, attended a three-day methodological conference entitled “People - places - objects. Documentary film as an educational tool about Auschwitz and the Holocaust”, held at the Auschwitz Memorial from 25-27 August.

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

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary commemorating the outbreak of the uprising in the Białystok ghetto, the U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, announced U.S. support for the development of a virtual online tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial.

Father Maximilian Maria Kolbe, a Franciscan friar, was killed in the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz 82 years ago on August 14, 1941. The anniversary of this event was commemorated at the Memorial. A solemn Mass was celebrated at Block 11, which housed the camp prison and where the monk was murdered.