News
Water Seepage in the Crematorium
10-01-2003
Preservation work began several weeks ago on the Crematorium I building at the site of the Auschwitz I Main Camp. The walls were extremely vulnerable to water leakage. Any hard rain resulted in the seepage of water into the building, damaging its structure. The waterproofing work now underway, scheduled for completion by the end of January, will dry the walls and protect the building against seepage.
To Forget about Them Would Be Unthinkable
06-01-2003
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum has published, in German and Polish, an album titled Nie wolno o nich zapomnieć (To Forget about Them Would Be Unthinkable), by Museum historian Helena Kubica. It is devoted to the memory of the children deported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp, the majority of whom were murdered in the camp by the Germans or fell victim to the conditions of life in the camp.
They Remember
08-11-2002
As happens each year, candles were lighted on the graves in the cemetery at Brzeszcze on All Saints' Day. Columns of Auschwitz Concentration Camp prisoners passed right by this cemetery on January 18, 1945. That final evacuation of the camp is known as the Death March. More than 10,000 of the 50,000 prisoners evacuated are estimated to have died then—just a few days before the arrival of the Red Army, which liberated the camp on January 27.
In Jerusalem, On the Holocaust
05-11-2002
For two weeks a group of more than thirty people—Polish and history teachers, museum staffers, Auschwitz Museum guides, and two priests—attended a training course organized by Yad Vashem. This memorial institute in Israel has been commemorating the Destruction of the Jews at the hands of the Nazis during World War II for almost fifty years.
