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A summary of the activities of the Auschwitz Memorial in recent years - particularly during the pandemic - was the main topic of the meeting of the International Auschwitz Council, which took place in Oświęcim and Krakow on 23 and 24 November 2022, chaired by Prof. Grzegorz Berendt.

After several years of preparation and testing, as part of the ongoing project to implement BIM (Building Information Modelling), a BIM model of the state of preservation and condition of a fully conserved brick prisoner barracks at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site was created at the Museum. The result is a faithful, three-dimensional image of the building, with available data and related information associated with the building.

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California's Simi Valley will be the next location of the exhibition 'Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away' created by the Museum and the Spanish company Musealia. It is scheduled to open at the end of March 2023. Until January 2023, the exhibition can be seen in Malmö, Sweden.

The history of medicine at the German Nazi camp Auschwitz will be the subject of an online educational session on 1 December. It will be translated simultaneously into English.

A group of European politicians and parliamentarians organised by the Brussels-based European Jewish Association visited the Auschwitz Memorial Museum on 7 November.

The 12th session of the International Committee of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation took place on 18 October at the Auschwitz Memorial, attended by representatives of the donor countries supporting the Foundation's Perpetual Fund. Some committee members were present online.