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The period of the pandemic is exceptionally difficult for the Auschwitz Memorial that has been closed to visitors since March 12 and hence deprived of its primary source of financing. Therefore, we wish to ask everyone for whom the preservation of Memory is important for financial support to allow us to continue with numerous educational, research, exhibition, and publishing projects.

Ensuring the safety of Memorial visitors and staff constitutes one of the most important tasks in the reality of COVID-19 pandemic. After the reopening of the Museum for visitors, one of the elements aiming at minimizing the risk of spreading of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus as well as other viruses and bacteria which can be brought inside for example on clothes is constituted by a special sanitation gate which was installed in front of the entrance to the Museum.

Thanks to conservation works conducted within the Memorial, the objects – traces of people and their tragic stories in German Nazi Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp – are constantly discovered.

The Auschwitz Memorial will be temporarily open to individual visitors on May 30th and 31st. The rules of a visit have been adjusted to new sanitary requirements. Former camp site will be open for visitors from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. for a tour without an educator, only after prior e-mail registration.

On 14 June 1940, Germans deported a group of 728 Poles from the prison in Tarnów to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Among them were soldiers of the September campaign, members of the underground independence organizations, secondary school pupils and students, as well as a small group of Polish Jews. The received numbers from 31 to 758.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands has announced its decision to donate one million euros to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation's Perpetual Fund. The money comes from the budget of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport of the Netherlands, in the scope of activities related to war veterans and memory.