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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.

Orange Polska, the strategic technology partner of the Museum and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, has been recognized among the donors supporting the educational mission of the Memorial. A special plaque at the headquarters of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust was unveiled during a ceremony that took place on 14 June.

The new permanent exhibition "Poles in KL Auschwitz. Residents of the Oświęcim area during World War II" is being created on two floors of block 15 at the former Auschwitz I site. The ongoing work pertains to preserving the historic structure and construction activities, among other things. The groundwork for the initial exhibition elements is currently underway. The exhibition should be completed by the middle of next year.