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Webinar: “Deportations of the First Poles to Auschwitz” – 17 June 2025
The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust invites you to attend a webinar titled “No One Knew Where We Were Going: Deportations of the First Poles to KL Auschwitz”, which will be held on 17 June 2025 at 4:00 PM (CEST) on the Zoom platform. The webinar will be simultaneously translated into English.
The program includes a lecture by Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz, Head of the Auschwitz Museum Research Center, on the first Polish prisoners deported to the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, as well as a presentation by Marek Tomaszewski, author of the publication “Tarnów – KL Auschwitz. First Transport to Hell”, dedicated to a unique collection of photographs showing the deportation of the first Poles to the newly established camp.
Participants will also view the film “First Transport to KL Auschwitz. Post Scriptum”, produced by TVP Kraków and the Auschwitz Museum.
Program (CEST):
16:00 | Opening of the webinar
16:05-16:50 | The First Poles in KL Auschwitz – lecture by Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz, Auschwitz Museum
17:00-17:30 | On the Rediscovered Photographs of the First Transport from Tarnów – presentation by Marek Tomaszewski
17:30-18:00 | “First Transport to KL Auschwitz. Post Scriptum” – screening of the film by TVP Kraków and the Auschwitz Museum
Participation is free of charge. Please submit your registration via the online form by 15 June 2025. After this date, participants will receive a link to join the webinar. The event is intended for adults.
For more information, please contact from the ICEAH.
85 years ago, on 14 June 1940, the Germans deported a group of 728 Poles from the prison in Tarnów to Auschwitz. Among them were soldiers from the September Campaign, members of underground resistance organizations, high school and university students, as well as a small group of Polish Jews. They were assigned camp numbers from 31 to 758. Of the 728 prisoners, 325 survived the war, 292 were murdered, and the fate of 111 remains unknown.
