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Webinar "Auschwitz: Holocaust and the Memory of the Victims - 22 January 2026
The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust invites you to a webinar titled “Auschwitz: Holocaust and the Memory of the Victims”, which will take place on 22 January. The webinar will be held on the Zoom platform and will be simultaneously translated into English.
Program (time zone CET)
16:00 | Opening
16:05–17:05 | Bureaucracy and genocide in the personnel files of SS Men from the Auschwitz camp garrison
Lecture by Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz, Research Center of the Museum
17:10–18:40 | The expansion and functioning of the infrastructure of extermination at KL Auschwitz
Lecture by Dr. Igor Bartosik, Research Center of the Museum
18:40–19:10 | The extermination as remembered by Sonderkommando Survivor Henryk Mandelbaum
Excerpts from a recorded testimony
Participation in the webinar is free of charge. Applications submitted via the online registration form should be sent by 20 January 2026. After this date, participants will receive an email with a link to join the meeting. The webinar is intended for adults only.
For additional information, please contact: Dr. Maria Martyniak, ICEAH (maria.martyniak@auschwitz.org)
During the fewer than five years of the existence of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz, approximately 1.1 million people were murdered there. The vast majority, about 1 million, were Jews. The second-largest group of victims were Poles (approximately 70,000), followed by Roma and Sinti (about 20,000). The victims also included around 14,000 Soviet prisoners of war and approximately 12,000 prisoners of other nationalities (including Czechs, Belarusians, Yugoslavs, French, Germans, and Austrians).
From mid-1942 onward, Jews deemed by SS doctors to be unfit or unsuitable for forced labor were subjected to immediate extermination in gas chambers directly after deportation to the camp.
In addition to Jews, several thousand Soviet prisoners of war were murdered in gas chambers using Zyklon B. There are also documented cases of Poles being killed in this way, including groups numbering several hundred selected in the camp hospital, prisoners executed after the revolt of the penal company, and those sentenced by summary courts. Several thousand Roma and Sinti were also murdered in the gas chambers.
Auschwitz has become a global symbol of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust. It is also a crucial reference point for contemporary civilization and for the postwar transformations in building identity and systems of cooperation in politics, economics, and defense. The word Auschwitz has become a powerful cultural symbol, a synonym for the deepest collapse of human values.
