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Women in Auschwitz Concentration Camp
A temporary exhibition titled "Women in Auschwitz Concentration Camp: The Sixtieth Anniversary of the Women's Camp" was opened in the lobby of the Reception Building at the Museum on March 26.
The exhibition marks the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the opening of the women's camp in Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Since its founding in June 1940, the concentration camp had been in operation for almost two years when the first women prisoners were incarcerated there on March 26, 1942. The Nazis registered a total of over 130,000 women, mostly Poles and Jews, in the camp. The majority of them died as a result of illness, starvation, and the reign of terror in the camp.
The exhibition is mounted by the Museum Exhibition Department and uses material from the Museum archives. Mirosław Obstarczyk is the author of the exhibition, which will be open to visitors through the end of the year.
