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80 years ago, some 4,300 children, women, and men - the last Roma prisoners in section BIIe - were murdered in the gas chambers of the German Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. The so-called Zigeunerfamilienlager ("Gypsy family camp") was liquidated on the night of 2 - 3 August 1944.

80 years ago, on August 1, 1944, an armed uprising erupted in Warsaw. It lasted 63 days. Its history is inextricably linked with the history of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz, as reminded by a podcast published on this occasion from the series "On Auschwitz".

'Memoria' is an online magazine dedicated to the history of Auschwitz, the Holocaust as well as memory and education around the world.

The Auschwitz Museum has started a cooperation with TrollWall AI, a startup that specializes in the automatic moderation of hateful comments on social media, based on artificial intelligence models.

The 5th international conference Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire is dedicated to the pseudomedical experiments conducted on prisoners in German Nazi concentration camps, as well as the health consequences of imprisonment in the camp. The conference will take place on 23-25 September 2024 in Kraków, Poland.

A new online lesson dedicated to the prisoners who were Jehovah’s Witnesses and Bible Students in the German Nazi camp Auschwitz has been prepared by the International Centre for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust. Its author is Dr. Teresa Wontor-Cichy from the Museum Research Centre. The lesson is available in English and Polish.