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Auschwitz-Birkenau: the Past and the Present is a richly illustrated folder more than 20 pages long in no fewer than eighteen languages including Hebrew, Arabic, and Korean. It is available free of charge from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum website.

When one looks at the table full of medical instruments (shown on cover), which were most likely used at Auschwitz, it is hard to control one’s emotions and imagination. Many questions arise immediately. How easy it is to change manmade implements to save lives into tools that inflict pain and dehumanize. That happens when a person is treated as an object to which everything can be done. That is how doctors performed experiments in Auschwitz. On the following pages, you will read about this extraordinary find.

The Program Board of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust has met at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

The number of visitors to the Auschwitz Memorial in the last decade has increased threefold. Last year saw another record—1.3 million people, mainly from abroad, visited the Museum. In the near future, the adjacent bus depot will be transformed into a new visitors center. In the competition to develop this plan, KKM Kozień Architekci was awarded first prize. Here you can see what the modern reception base will look like.

“Auschwitz and the Holocaust in the context of teaching about memory in Europe” is the title of this year’s Council of Europe seminar held in Oświęcim and Krakow on October 10-16. The co-organizer of the seminar is the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum has posted on its website the names of Poles from Lublin deported by the Nazis to the Nazi German Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. The database is more than a valuable source of historical information; it is also a monument to the memory of people whose lives were tragically scarred by Auschwitz.