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Webinar: Faces of the Liberation - 27 March 2025
The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust invites you to participate in a webinar dedicated to the liberation of German Nazi concentration camps, which will take place on March 27, 2025, on the Zoom platform. It will be simultaneously translated into English and Polish.
Its central theme is a quote from the testimony of Terezie Freundová-Jírová (camp number 81315), a survivor from the Czech Republic who was liberated in Auschwitz on January 27, 1945: "After all that had happened, at least we felt we were free people. Yes. People!"
The webinar program includes a panel discussion on the final weeks of the concentration camps' operation, the moment of their liberation, and what happened in the camps afterward. Additionally, participants will hear selected testimonies of survivors who lived to see liberation in various concentration camps.
Program:
16:00 | Opening of the webinar
16:05 – 18:15 | Faces of the Liberation – Panel Discussion
• Dr. Elke Gryglewski, Bergen-Belsen Memorial
• Jan Malecha, Buchenwald Memorial
• Dr. Nadia Sola-Sałamacha, State Museum at Majdanek
• Piotr Tarnowski, Stutthof Museum in Sztutowo
Moderation: Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz – Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
18:15 – 18:45 | The Moment of Liberation in Survivors' Memories – presentation of chosen video testimonies
Participation in the webinar is free of charge. Applications should be submitted via the online form by March 24, 2025. Registration will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. After this deadline, participants will receive an email with a link to join the meeting. The webinar is intended for adults only.
For additional information, please contact Anna Stańczyk from MCEAH: , +48 33 844 81 28
Unlike the chaos that characterized the evacuation and liquidation of other German Nazi concentration camps in the final weeks of the Third Reich, the evacuation and liquidation of Auschwitz-Birkenau was, in broad terms, a pre-planned action carried out by the still-functioning SS apparatus. As a result, the Nazi authorities managed to evacuate approximately 100,000 prisoners, using them as forced laborers for the German war economy, and to transport a significant amount of confiscated camp property. At the time of liberation, approximately 7,000 prisoners remained in the main camp Auschwitz I, as well as in Auschwitz II-Birkenau and Monowitz.
Additional Educational Resources on the Evacuation, Liquidation, and Liberation of Auschwitz:
📖 Online lesson
🎙️ Podcast
