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"Collections of the Memorial" - webinar, 30 October 2024

The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust invites you to participate in the webinar "Collections of the Memorial," which will be held online via Zoom on October 30, 2024.

This session will feature presentations by the Museum's Collections and Conservation staff on topics including scientific research on historical items, storage of collections, and their conservation.

Schedule (time zone CET):

16:00-16:10 | Session Opening – Rafał Pióro, Deputy Director of the Museum

16:10-16:40 | Introduction to the Collections of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum – Elżbieta Cajzer

16:40-18:00 | Panel I

-) Art in the Collections of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum – Agnieszka Sieradzka

-) Scientific Research on Historical Objects – Hanna Kubik

-) Storage of Collections – Magdalena Emilewicz-Pióro

18:10-19:00 | Panel II

-) Conservation Principles and Conservation of Objects – Andrzej Jastrzębiowski

-) Laboratory Research in Conservation – Marta Kościelniak & Natalia Pydyn

-) Implementation of the Project Related to the Conservation of Children's Shoes from the Collections, Documentation Scope – Jan Kapłon & Ewelina Sieradzka

Participation in the session is free of charge, and the session will be translated simultaneously into English.

Please register using the online form by October 28, 2024. After this date, you will receive an email with a link to join the meeting.

The Auschwitz Memorial is not only an authentic site. It also preserves tens of thousands of items of significant character, meaning, and symbolism. These primarily include personal items brought by people deported to Auschwitz and found after the liberation. They also comprise objects related to the prisoners' lives within the camp, evidencing the primitive living and hygienic conditions, starvation, but also attempts to preserve humanity within the wires of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz.