The Nazis first used Zyklon-B gas to murder people in Auschwitz 64 years ago. The first test, on 20 to 30 Soviet prisoners of war, was carried out in the basement of Block no. 11, in the last days of August, 1941. This experiment was the beginning of the mass extermination that the Germans perpetrated in Auschwitz.
A National Remembrance Institute (IPN) source has told the Polish Press Agency (PAP) that the Institute has lodged a complaint with the Warsaw-City Center prosecutor calling for an investigation into whether or not it was a crime to use photographs of Auschwitz victims in an advertisement for a techno party.
August 12-13 marked the 61st anniversary of the deportation to the Auschwitz Nazi camp of the most numerous group of Warsaw residents as the uprising engulfed the Polish capital. Almost 6,000 people were deported on these two days.
Conservation work involved in the cleaning of several thousand children’s shoes found after the Red Army liberated Auschwitz Concentration Camp in January 1945 will go on through most of August.
Roman Kwiatkowski, president of the Association of Roma in Poland, appealed for the remembrance of the victims of the Roma Holocaust during Tuesday’s Roma Extermination Day ceremonies at the Auschwitz-II Birkenau site, marking the 61st anniversary of the liquidation of the Gypsy Camp.
Images from www.auschwitz.org may be used only in publications relating to the history of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau or the activities of the Auschwitz Memorial. Their use must not tarnish the good reputation of the victims of KL Auschwitz. Any interference in the integrity of the images – including cropping or graphic processing – is prohibited. The use of the images for commercial purposes requires the Museum’s approval and information about the publication. Publishers undertake to indicate the authors and origin of the images: www.auschwitz.org, as well as to inform the Museum of the use of the images (press@auschwitz.org).
