News
Final Session in the Postgraduate Course
08-07-2002
The last session in this year's postgraduate course on "Totalitarianism, Nazism, and the Holocaust," organized by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in cooperation with the National Education Commission Academy of Pedagogy in Cracow, ended on Friday, July 5. Thirty-two teachers of history and Polish, mostly from Małopolska province, participated in the course this year. The formal closing ceremony and awarding of diplomas will be held in Oświęcim on September 7.
The City Reaches Out to Tourists
06-07-2002
The Birch Grove
05-07-2002
Location shooting for the film Der kleine Birkenhain (The Birch Grove) has been underway at the site of the Birkenau camp for almost a fortnight. It is the story of a former Auschwitz prisoner who undertakes a journey, decades after the war, into her traumatic past. One of the places she returns to is Birkenau, to which, at the age of fourteen, the Nazis deported her from the Drancy, France camp in April, 1944, because she was Jewish.
New Cameras
05-07-2002
Better Access to the Synagogue
22-05-2002
Information about and an invitation to visit the Jewish Center and Chevra Lomdei Mishanyot Synagogue will soon be displayed at Auschwitz Museum information points and at the Museum's bus stops. Visitors without cars can already reach the Center and Synagogue, thanks to a new bus route opened by the Museum. Every day at 3:00 p.m., a bus leaves the Museum parking lot, carrying those interested to the only synagogue in Oświęcim. A Center staff member meets the bus when it arrives at the Synagogue.