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On 14 June 1940, the Germans transferred a group of 728 Poles from the prison in Tarnów to the Auschwitz camp. The group included soldiers of the September campaign, members of independence underground organisations, school pupils and students, and a small group of Polish Jews. They were given numbers from 31 to 758. Of the 728 deported prisoners, 325 survived the war, 292 perished, while the fate of 111 is unknown to date.

Google will support the development of the "Auschwitz in Front of Your Eyes" project, enabling people from around the world to visit the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with a live guide in an online format. Through $1M in funding and support from Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, the Memorial will expand education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust to reach people everywhere, including making it accessible to people with disabilities, those in remote areas and unable to travel there.

The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust extends an invitation for your participation in an online educational session "Preserve Authenticity." The session's primary focus will be on conservation issues related to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. It will take place on 28 May and will be via the Zoom platform with simultaneous English translation.

On 6 May 2024, the 31st March of the Living was held at the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. It was led by a group of 55 Auschwitz and Holocaust Survivors. The group consisted of more than 20 survivors from Hungary. In addition to others, the participants included Jo'aw Kisz, the Education Minister of Israel, Izabela Ziętka, the Deputy Education Minister of Poland, and Andrzej Szejna, the Deputy Foreign Minister.

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

International Centre for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz Museum introduces the call for participants for the German-Polish seminar "How to Deal with a Difficult Past? – Educational Perspectives on National Socialism, Shoah and the Second World War." The project is organized in cooperation with the Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen Museums and Memorials.