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The main subjects discussed during the meeting of the Council of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on 4 June 2024 were the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation and the development of online tours.

The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust invites you to participate in the online educational session "The Apex of Crime: Deportations of Jews from Hungary to KL Auschwitz." The session will be held on the Zoom platform on 20 June 2024 and will be simultaneously translated into English.

In the 2023 Auschwitz Museum report, Director Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński wrote: "We are witnessing the resurgence of old, dehumanising, antisemitic, and racist demonic ideologies and the rise of new tensions and international conflicts."

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

The 39th session of the International Auschwitz Council took place at the State Museum at Majdanek in Lublin on 22 May 2024. The session was chaired by Dani Dayan.

On 14 June 1940, the Germans transferred a group of 728 Poles from the prison in Tarnów to the Auschwitz camp. The group included soldiers of the September campaign, members of independence underground organisations, school pupils and students, and a small group of Polish Jews. They were given numbers from 31 to 758. Of the 728 deported prisoners, 325 survived the war, 292 perished, while the fate of 111 is unknown to date.