English-Polish report summarizing the year 2023 at the Auschwitz Museum and Memorial was published. Director Piotr M. A. Cywiński dedicated his introduction to the role of memory in shaping our post-war identity.
On 27 January 2024 we will commemorate the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. The event will be held under the honorary patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda.
In 2023, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation (ABF) donated a record sum of PLN 27.5 million for conservation works to the Museum. The total support provided by ABF to date has reached nearly PLN 126 million, and the value of the Foundation's Endowment Fund in 2023 exceeded EUR 177 million.
The Council of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, at a meeting held online on 15 January, adopted a resolution referring to recent instances of instrumentalisation of the memory of the victims of Auschwitz in public debate.
In 2023, over 1.67 million people visited the Auschwitz Memorial. This is 41 percent more than the previous year, indicating a slow return to the situation before the global pandemic.
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