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At exactly 5.00 p.m. – “W” hour starting the insurgent fights in Warsaw - the director of the Museum, Piotr M.A. Cywiński, PhD laid a wreath at the Death Wall in the courtyard of Block 11 in the former Auschwitz I camp, paying tribute to almost 13,000 inhabitants of the capital deported to Auschwitz by the Germans.

'Memoria' is an online magazine dedicated to the history of Auschwitz, the Holocaust as well as memory and education around the world. New edition is available here (read online or download a PDF): memoria.auschwitz.org/July2020

In August we are extending the opening hours of the Auschwitz Memorial. The Museum can be visited from 8.00 to 20.30.

An exceptional discovery was made during conservation works on shoes belonging to Auschwitz victims, which are on display at the permanent exhibition, at the Memorial.

'Memoria' is an online magazine dedicated to the history of Auschwitz, the Holocaust as well as memory and education around the world. New edition is available here (read online or download PDF): memoria.auschwitz.org/June2020

On the 73rd anniversary of establishing of the Museum at the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, we are announcing the winners of “If Not for Those Ten…” awards. They go to our volunteers and representatives of institutions supporting voluntary work at the Memorial. Among the winners there are persons from Poland, China, Germany, Pakistan and the USA.