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

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British recognition for the director of the Auschwitz Memorial and a special appeal

26-10-2023
Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński, the director of the Auschwitz Museum and the president of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, has been names Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

Director of the Auschwitz Museum became the first laureate of the Maximilian Kolbe Werk Prize

20-10-2023
Director of the Auschwitz Museum, Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński, became the first laureate of the Maximilian-Kolbe-Werk Prize, an award established to mark the organization's 50th anniversary. The award was presented on 19 October in Berlin during the event of MKW anniversary.

Only a Trace Remains... The extermination of Jews from the Dąbrowa Basin" - online seminar, 30 October 2023

12-10-2023
The International Center for Auschwitz and Holocaust Education invites you to participate in the online seminar, "Only a Trace Remains... The extermination of Jews from the Dąbrowa Basin," which will take place on the Zoom platform on 20 October 2023. The session will be simultaneously translated into English.

“Notebook of poems from Auschwitz”. The museum's Polish-English-Swedish publication presented in Sweden.

05-10-2023
During the Gothenburg Book Fair, the most prominent literary event in Scandinavia, the Museum showcased an exceptional trilingual publication: “Notebook of poems from Auschwitz”.

Museum digital library. 5th National Conference of Museum Librarians and Library Workers.

02-10-2023
"Museum digital library. The next step to accessibility?" - this was the theme of the 5th National Conference of Librarians and Museum Library Workers, held at the Auschwitz Museum from 28-29 September. It was attended by 38 people from museums, archives and libraries from all over Poland.

Volkswagen's support for the Museum

01-10-2023
During a visit by a group of Volkswagen executives to the Memorial, which began on 25 September, a car was donated to the Museum, which will assist in the upkeep of the historic site of the former Auschwitz German Nazi concentration and extermination camp.