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On January 26th, 2022, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation (ABMF), together with its institutional partner the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, as well as four local partners in the U.S., launched the Auschwitz Legacy Fellowship - a year-long program for high school teachers from all over the United States.

The beginning of extermination at Auschwitz constituted the main theme of the 77th anniversary of liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, only a small group of participants, mainly Survivors, gathered within the Memorial.

On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, UNESCO is organising an online commemoration event starting at 18.00 (CET) on 27 January.

English-Polish report summarizing the year 2021 at the Auschwitz Museum and Memorial was published. In his introduction, Director Piotr M. A. Cywiński: "Warning is the child of wisdom. And this warning arises from memory."

The preparatory Multibook is a proposal of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust (ICEAH) for young people who plan to visit the Auschwitz Memorial. It is available in two languages: English and Polish.

“The SS Garrison of Auschwitz” and “Women working for the SS” are new online lessons prepared by the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust (ICEAH). They tell the history of the German Nazi camp in the context of perpetrators.