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MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU FORMER GERMAN NAZI
CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP

III. The conservation of archival and moveable objects

1) Improved conditions and monitoring of moveable objects and, in the long run, the construction of state-of-the-art storage facilities for archival and moveable objects. At present, these original objects are stored in 4 historic buildings at the Auschwitz I site. 

2) Conservation of archival and moveable objects.

• approximately 250 meters of archival material
• approximately 39 thousand negatives of photographs an several thousand photographs
• approximately 3800 suitcases
• approximately 460 prostheses
• approximately 260 prayer garments
• approximately 40 kg eyeglasses
• approximately 12 thousand pots and pans
• approximately 6 thousand works of art
• Bunks, cabinets, stools, tables, etc. 

The annual cost of the conservation of these objects is estimated at approximately €250 thousand