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On the 77th anniversary of the creation of the Museum on the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz, the Director's Award of the Museum "If There Were Not Ten..." was presented. The recipients are volunteers, interns, volunteer coordinators, and institutions supporting volunteers at the Memorial.

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A group of teachers from Ukraine participated in a seminar at the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust (ICEAH) at the Auschwitz Museum, which took place on June 24-26. This was the first seminar for Ukrainian educators at the Auschwitz Museum since the onset of the full-scale war in Ukraine.

On 20 June at the Warsaw headquarters of KPMG, which has supported the Foundation’s activities from the start, the 19th session of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation Council took place.

A valuable collection of artistic works by the Auschwitz Survivor Waldemar Nowakowski, along with camp documents related to him and his wife, has been added to the Collections of the Museum.

14 June 1940 is considered the beginning of the functioning of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. On that day, the Germans deported a group of 728 Poles from the Tarnów prison to Auschwitz. The group included soldiers who had fought against the German invasion in September 1939, members of underground independence organisations, secondary school, and university students, and a small number of Polish Jews. They were given numbers from 31 to 758.