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MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU FORMER GERMAN NAZI CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP
The Deportation of Jews from the Łódź Ghetto to KL Auschwitz and their Extermination A new publication by Auschwitz MemorialThis is the first attempt at a detailed account of the deportation of the Jews from the Łódź ghetto to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in August 1944, and their subsequent fate.
The Museum's internet bookstore is offering for sale this 400-page album full of high-fidelity reproductions of 175 works of art, mostly sketches, drawings, and paintings made by prisoners in Auschwitz Concentration Camp during the Second World War.
The first full, wide-ranging study of the activities of the German IG Farben company in Auschwitz during World War II. The History of the IG Farben Werk Auschwitz Camps, 1941-1945, by Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum historian Piotr Setkiewicz, is the first in-depth study of the history of the synthetic rubber and fuel plants that the German cartel built in Oświęcim during the Second World War.
Sept. 14 Oświęcim (PAP – Polish Press Agency) – Preparations are underway for preservation work on some of the prisoner barracks at the site of the German Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp.
Dr. Piotr M.A. Cywiński is the head of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum as of September 1, 2006. He takes over the duties of the previous director, Jerzy Wróblewski, who has retired after a career spanning 50 years.
Teachers and educators from Romania traveled to Poland from August 31-September 2 to take part in an educational seminar titled The Symbolism of Auschwitz: Education at a Memorial Site, prepared by the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust.
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