A young German conscientious objector performing alternative service at the Auschwitz Museum is the protagonist of a film that opens in movie theatres across Germany today.
The Auschwitz Preservation Society has published a revised version of a guidebook following the route of one of the “Death Marches” along which Auschwitz prisoners were marched from the camp to the town of Wodzisław Sląski in January 1945.
At 5:00 p.m. on August 1, precisely 63 years after the start of the Warsaw Uprising, Museum Director Piotr M.A. Cywiński and accompanying persons placed wreaths at the Death Wall in commemoration of this tragic event.
Over 700 thousand people visited the site of the Nazi German Auschwitz Concentration Camp in the first 7 months of 2007—over 200 thousand more than in the corresponding period last year. This means that, if visitors keep arriving at the present level, the annual; total will exceed 1.2 million. Admission to the Museum is free.
The Association of the Roma in Poland and the Romani Historical Institute invite you to ceremonies commemorating the 63rd anniversary of the murder by the Nazis of the Roma prisoners who remained alive in the Zigeunerlager (“Gypsy” Camp).
Museum Director Dr. Piotr M.A. Cywiński met with guides to the grounds of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on the occasion of the recent 60th anniversary of the founding of the Museum.
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