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The 5th international conference Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire is dedicated to the pseudomedical experiments conducted on prisoners in German Nazi concentration camps, as well as the health consequences of imprisonment in the camp. The conference will take place on 23-25 September 2024 in Kraków, Poland.

A new online lesson dedicated to the prisoners who were Jehovah’s Witnesses and Bible Students in the German Nazi camp Auschwitz has been prepared by the International Centre for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust. Its author is Dr. Teresa Wontor-Cichy from the Museum Research Centre. The lesson is available in English and Polish.

On the 77th anniversary of the creation of the Museum on the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz, the Director's Award of the Museum "If There Were Not Ten..." was presented. The recipients are volunteers, interns, volunteer coordinators, and institutions supporting volunteers 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.

A group of teachers from Ukraine participated in a seminar at the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust (ICEAH) at the Auschwitz Museum, which took place on June 24-26. This was the first seminar for Ukrainian educators at the Auschwitz Museum since the onset of the full-scale war in Ukraine.

On 20 June at the Warsaw headquarters of KPMG, which has supported the Foundation’s activities from the start, the 19th session of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation Council took place.