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78th Anniversary of the Martyrdom of St. Maximilian Kolbe
15-08-2019
Father Maximilian Maria Kolbe, a Franciscan, was killed in the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz 78 years ago. A solemn Holy Mass was celebrated on the anniversary of this event at Block 11, which housed the camp prison where the monk was murdered. The Mass was presided over by Abp. Marek Jędraszewski.
Over twenty million PLN for the development of the Visitor Service Centre
13-08-2019
The significant financial support will help to develop the infrastructure for providing services to visitors to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial. The agreement between the Museum and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation for the transfer of $5.5 million for the project was signed in New York by the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Piotr M. A. Cywiński, and the donors: Ronald S. Lauder and Joel Citron - on behalf of himself and his wife, Ulrika. The funds will enable the implementation of one of the complementary projects to the new Visitor Service Centre.
ICEAH seminar for Israeli educators and guides
12-08-2019
19 Israeli guides and employees of institutions involved in the subject of the Holocaust took part in the seminar entitled "Auschwitz in the collective consciousness in Poland and around the world. The role and significance of the Auschwitz-Birkenau memory for Jews and Poles”, which was held from 28 July - 8 August 2019. It was organised by the International Centre for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
Roma and Sinti Genocide Remembrance Day
08-08-2019
75 years ago, on the night of the 2nd to the 3rd of August, the German liquidated in the Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp so called family camp for the Gypsies (Zigeunerfamilienlager). About 4.3 thousand children, women and men, the last Roma prisoners in the camp, were murdered in the gas chambers at that time. Main commemorative events took place within the premises of former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau.