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Webinar: Interessengebiet – the zone of interest of the Auschwitz camp – 29 April 2025
The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust invites you to take part in a webinar on the history of the so-called “zone of interest” of the Auschwitz camp – . The webinar will take place on 29 April 2025 on the Zoom platform and will be simultaneously translated into English.
The program will include lectures by historians from the Museum Research Center focused on the SS-administered area of over 40 km², which was established in early 1941 following the expulsion of several thousand Poles and Jews from towns and villages near the camp.
Program:
16:00 | Opening
16:05-17:35 | Ideological and economic aspects of the creation and functioning of the Auschwitz zone of interest – lecture by Dr. Łukasz Martyniak
17:35-17:40 | Break
17:40-19:10 | Subcamps within the Auschwitz zone of interest – lecture by Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz
Participation in the webinar is free of charge. Please submit your application using the online form by 27 April 2025. After this date, you will receive an email with a link to join the meeting. The webinar is intended for adults only.
For more information, contact Dr. Maria Martyniak from ICEAH:
The creation of the Auschwitz zone of interest was a result of, among other factors, the German authorities’ desire to remove witnesses of the crimes committed by the SS and to prevent contact between prisoners and the outside world. An equally important factor was the confiscation of land for the camp’s agricultural estate. Within the interest zone, eight subcamps were established, from which prisoners were sent to work in agriculture, animal husbandry, and the maintenance of fish ponds.
