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In August we are extending the opening hours of the Auschwitz Memorial. The Museum can be visited from 8.00 to 20.30.

An exceptional discovery was made during conservation works on shoes belonging to Auschwitz victims, which are on display at the permanent exhibition, at the Memorial.

'Memoria' is an online magazine dedicated to the history of Auschwitz, the Holocaust as well as memory and education around the world. New edition is available here (read online or download PDF): memoria.auschwitz.org/June2020

On the 73rd anniversary of establishing of the Museum at the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, we are announcing the winners of “If Not for Those Ten…” awards. They go to our volunteers and representatives of institutions supporting voluntary work at the Memorial. Among the winners there are persons from Poland, China, Germany, Pakistan and the USA.

German support for the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation doubled from 60 to 120 million euros. The funds are going to come from the subsidies of federal government and German lands. The agreement relating to this decision was signed in Warsaw by Heiko Maas, German Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński, Foundation President and Director of the Auschwitz Museum.

June 14th 1940 is considered the date when German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz began its functioning. On that day, the Germans deported from the prison in Tarnów to the Auschwitz camp the group of 728 Poles. Among them were veterans of the September 1939 campaign, members of underground independence groups, high-school and university students, and a small group of Polish Jews. They received numbers 31 to 758.