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MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU FORMER GERMAN NAZI CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP
Stamps for tattooing prisoners discovered Metal stamps used for tattooing Auschwitz prisoners entered the collection of the Auschwitz Museum. The German Nazi concentration and extermination camp was the only one where prisoner camp numbers were tattooed.
More than 100 thousand internet users use the Auschwitz Memorial page on Facebook. Thanks to that, information about the history of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, but also the daily work of the Auschwitz Memorial, reaches many people from all over the world in several languages.
A new publication entitled Auschwitz from A to Z. An Illustrated History is an encyclopedia-like, richly illustrated compendium of knowledge about the history of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz.
The president of the Swiss Confederation and Minister of Foreign Affairs Didier Burkhalter together with his wife visited the Auschwitz Memorial Site and Museum on 28 January 2014. They were greeted and guided around the site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp by the director of the Museum, Dr Piotr M.A. Cywiński.
On the 27th of January 2014, 69 years have passed since the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. The anniversary ceremony, which took place at the former Aushwitz II-Birkenau camp were attended by former prisoners of Auschwitz and Holocaust survivors.
A report on the year 2013 in the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum was published. In the introduction, director Dr. Piotr M.A. Cywiński underlined an incredible symbolic significance of the history of this Nazi German concentration and extermination camp.
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