Director of the Auschwitz Museum, Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński, became the first laureate of the Maximilian-Kolbe-Werk Prize, an award established to mark the organization's 50th anniversary. The award was presented on 19 October in Berlin during the event of MKW anniversary.
The International Center for Auschwitz and Holocaust Education invites you to participate in the online seminar, "Only a Trace Remains... The extermination of Jews from the Dąbrowa Basin," which will take place on the Zoom platform on 20 October 2023. The session will be simultaneously translated into English.
During the Gothenburg Book Fair, the most prominent literary event in Scandinavia, the Museum showcased an exceptional trilingual publication: “Notebook of poems from Auschwitz”.
"Museum digital library. The next step to accessibility?" - this was the theme of the 5th National Conference of Librarians and Museum Library Workers, held at the Auschwitz Museum from 28-29 September. It was attended by 38 people from museums, archives and libraries from all over Poland.
During a visit by a group of Volkswagen executives to the Memorial, which began on 25 September, a car was donated to the Museum, which will assist in the upkeep of the historic site of the former Auschwitz German Nazi concentration and extermination camp.
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