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MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU FORMER GERMAN NAZI CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP
The Museum has published a second, expanded edition of the guide titled Auschwitz-Birkenau: History and the Present. In fewer than 100 pages, it conveys the essential information about the history of the Nazi German concentration camp, and describes the founding and ongoing work of the Museum.
Museum staff members and former prisoners honored the 67th anniversary of the first deportation of 728 Polish political prisoners to the Auschwitz Nazi German concentration camp. They laid wreathes and lighted candles at the Death Wall outside Block no. 11, where the Germans shot at least several thousand people.
Museum staff placed floral tributes at the place where Polish prisoners in the so-called penal company attempted to escape while working on the grounds of the Birkenau camp on June 19, 1942.
39% of Poles feel that Jews are responsible for the death of Jesus. A majority state that “there is too much talk about the Holocaust.” The Anti-Defamation League, which carried out the survey, says this is proof that anti-Semitism is “deeply rooted in Polish society.”
Images from www.auschwitz.org may be used only in publications relating to the history of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau or the activities of the Auschwitz Memorial. Their use must not tarnish the good reputation of the victims of KL Auschwitz. Any interference in the integrity of the images – including cropping or graphic processing – is prohibited. The use of the images for commercial purposes requires the Museum’s approval and information about the publication. Publishers undertake to indicate the authors and origin of the images: www.auschwitz.org, as well as to inform the Museum of the use of the images (press@auschwitz.org).
