Font size:

MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU FORMER GERMAN NAZI
CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP

News

Values and Violence: A Sociological Analysis of Auschwitz. Book on sale at Museum's internet shop

27-09-2006
Anna Pawełczyńska's famous book Values and Violence: A Sociological Analysis [of Auschwitz] has gone on sale at the Museum's internet shop (it is available in Polish and German).

High Attendance Continues at Auschwitz Museum. 600 000 visited the Museum from January to August

21-09-2006
About 600 thousand people visited the Museum grounds, buildings, and exhibitions in the first 8 months of 2006, a figure close to that noted in the corresponding period last year.

The Deportation of Jews from the Łódź Ghetto to KL Auschwitz and their Extermination

21-09-2006
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.

Art in Auschwitz, 1940-1945. An Album of Art Work by Auschwitz prisoners

20-09-2006
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 History of the IG Farben Werk Auschwitz Camps, 1941-1945

19-09-2006
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.

Barracks at Auschwitz II-Birkenau Site To Undergo Conservation

18-09-2006
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.