News
The Citizen Betrayed – The Memory of Holocaust Victims from Hungary
14-04-2004
The permanent exhibition titled The Citizen Betrayed – The Memory of Holocaust Victims from Hungary opens in Block no. 18 at the Auschwitz I-Main Camp on April 15, 2004. Magyar Balint, Hungarian education minister and Ryszard Mikliński, subsecretary of state of the Polish culture ministry, will attend the ceremonies, which begin at 3:00 PM.
The Gravel Pit Comes Under Museum Control
07-04-2004
First Auschwitz Prisoner Dies. Stanisław Ryniak (1915-2004)
24-02-2004
Stanisław Ryniak, an engineer from Wrocław, Poland, will never again travel to Oświęcim to take part—as he did each year—in commemorative observances at the Museum. The first political prisoner in Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Ryniak died recently in Wrocław at the age of 88 and was buried in Osobowicki Cemetery there.
Training for Guides
23-02-2004
The History of Auschwitz Concentration Camp in French
23-02-2004
Simone Veil, chairwoman of the French Shoah Memorial Foundation, has informed the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum of a decision to award the Museum 40,000 euro as a subsidy for the translation into French and publication in that language of the “big Auschwitz monograph” – a collective work on the history of the Death Camp, written mostly by Museum research staff.