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

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Our post-war identity is structured on the memory. Auschwitz Museum Report 2023.

25-01-2024
English-Polish report summarizing the year 2023 at the Auschwitz Museum and Memorial was published. Director Piotr M. A. Cywiński dedicated his introduction to the role of memory in shaping our post-war identity.

79th anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz, 27 January 2024 - announcement

22-01-2024
On 27 January 2024 we will commemorate the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. The event will be held under the honorary patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda.

Record support from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation for preserving authenticity at the Memorial

19-01-2024
In 2023, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation (ABF) donated a record sum of PLN 27.5 million for conservation works to the Museum. The total support provided by ABF to date has reached nearly PLN 126 million, and the value of the Foundation's Endowment Fund in 2023 exceeded EUR 177 million.

Museum Council on the Instrumentalisation of the memory of Auschwitz Victims

18-01-2024
The Council of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, at a meeting held online on 15 January, adopted a resolution referring to recent instances of instrumentalisation of the memory of the victims of Auschwitz in public debate.

1 million 670 thousand people visited the Memorial in 2023

03-01-2024
In 2023, over 1.67 million people visited the Auschwitz Memorial. This is 41 percent more than the previous year, indicating a slow return to the situation before the global pandemic.

Memoria Magazine no. 75

31-12-2023
'Memoria' is an online magazine dedicated to the history of Auschwitz, the Holocaust as well as memory and education around the world.