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78th anniversary of liquidation of the Roma camp in Auschwitz

02-08-2022
About a thousand people took part on August 2nd in the events commemorating the Sinti and Roma Holocaust Memorial Day at the Memorial Site. Among them there were the representatives of state authorities, international organizations, ambassadors, politicians, representatives of local authorities, institutions and museums.

35th meeting of the International Auschwitz Council

27-07-2022
Inaugural session of the fourth term of office of the International Auschwitz Council was held on July 26th at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in Warsaw. Nominations were handed over to its members by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki. The meeting was also attended by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture and National Heritage Professor Piotr Gliński, Ph.D., as well as Deputy Minister of Culture and National Heritage Jarosław Sellin.

US State Department Honors 75 years of the Auschwitz Museum. National Leadership Award of USHMM for the director of the Memorial

14-07-2022
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the creation of the Memorial at the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp, the US State Department organized a special ceremony that recognized the singular role the historic site has played in preserving Holocaust memory.

Portraits depicting Auschwitz prisoner Wincenty Gawron in the Memorial Collections

12-07-2022
The Museum's Collections has been enriched with two portraits of Wincenty Gawron, a survivor of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz and a member of the camp's resistance movement. They were donated by his daughter, Margaret Jablonsky.

Seminar for journalists, 9-12 October. Call for participants

08-07-2022
"History, Memory and Responsibility" is the title of the English-language seminar for journalists at the Auschwitz Memorial. It will take place on 9-12 October 2022 (Oct 9 & 12 are the arrival and departure days).

“The role of museums and memorials in a changing world” - expert debate on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Memorial

07-07-2022
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Memorial at the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz, on July 1, the Museum hosted an expert debate “The role of museums and memorials in a changing world”.