News

Oct. 6, Gdańsk (PAP-Polish Press Agency) – An inquiry by the Gdańsk Branch of the Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation has concluded that soap was made from human fat and used for general cleaning purposes at the Anatomy Institute of the Gdańsk Medical Academy, under the direction of Professor Rudolf Spanner, during the Second World War.

Anna Pawełczyńska's famous book Values and Violence: A Sociological Analysis [of Auschwitz] has gone on sale at the Museum's internet shop (it is available in Polish and German).

About 600 thousand people visited the Museum grounds, buildings, and exhibitions in the first 8 months of 2006, a figure close to that noted in the corresponding period last year.

The Deportation of Jews from the Łódź Ghetto to KL Auschwitz and their Extermination A new publication by Auschwitz MemorialThis is the first attempt at a detailed account of the deportation of the Jews from the Łódź ghetto to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in August 1944, and their subsequent fate.

The Museum's internet bookstore is offering for sale this 400-page album full of high-fidelity reproductions of 175 works of art, mostly sketches, drawings, and paintings made by prisoners in Auschwitz Concentration Camp during the Second World War.

The first full, wide-ranging study of the activities of the German IG Farben company in Auschwitz during World War II. The History of the IG Farben Werk Auschwitz Camps, 1941-1945, by Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum historian Piotr Setkiewicz, is the first in-depth study of the history of the synthetic rubber and fuel plants that the German cartel built in Oświęcim during the Second World War.