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“Ecce Homo – The Person and the Face” is the title of an exhibition by Dr. Artur Kapturski, opened at the Auschwitz Museum hostel. The exhibition presents over 650 oil paintings, portraits of prisoners of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. The works are based on preserved registration photographs from the Museum Archives.

The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust invites you to a webinar titled “Auschwitz: Holocaust and the Memory of the Victims”, which will take place on 22 January. The webinar will be held on the Zoom platform and will be simultaneously translated into English.

Starting from October 9, the Auschwitz Museum hosts an exhibition of the Prussian Blue painting series by the artist Yishai Jusidman. This is the first large-scale contemporary art exhibition at the Museum. Nearly 50 works, which have not yet been displayed in Europe, are displayed in the rooms of Block 21 at the former Auschwitz I camp.

We remind visitors that the Auschwitz Museum is closed to the public on 25 December and 1 January. We also appeal to all visitors to exercise caution regarding external tour offers.

The first of three parts of the Museum’s new main exhibition will be opened to visitors on 12 December. The exhibition “Auschwitz – Experiences of Camp Prisoners” in Blocks 8 and 9 presents the fates and experiences of those registered in the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz.

“Music, Memory, Violence in Auschwitz-Birkenau” was the title of a conference held at the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust on 26-28 November 2025. The project was organized by the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and the Research Institute for Music Theatre Studies (fimt) of the Bayreuth University in cooperation with Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum.