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Children in the camp constituted the leitmotif of the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp. In connection with the coronavirus pandemic, on January 27th the events commemorating the anniversary were exceptionally held not within the Memorial Site, but online.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation and AppsFlyer, the global marketing analytics leader, announced a joint program to create a set of immersive technological solutions including a guided virtual tour of the Auschwitz Memorial aimed at enhancing the educational value for visitors from around the globe. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on January 26 - a day before the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz - in Poland and Israel

Polish-English report summarizing the year 2020 at the Auschwitz Museum and Memorial was published. In his introduction, Director Piotr M. A. Cywiński wrote: „Worse than forgetting, is such a memory, that doesn’t arouse a moral anxiety within us.”

In 2020, a total of 502,000 people visited the Auschwitz Memorial. It is nearly five times less than a year ago. The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on the number of visitors to the Memorial in 2020.

Conservation works have been completed on the second of the historical guard towers at the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Both buildings were damaged in March 2019 by strong gusts of wind. The Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation financed the works.

On 27 January 2021 we will commemorate the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the commemoration will exceptionally not be held at the Memorial, but in the virtual space.