Anniversary TV studio
Polish Television (TVP) and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum are organizing an international television studio to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz on January 27, 2025.
While Polish Television has previously broadcast the Auschwitz liberation commemoration events, this is the first time it has partnered with the Memorial to create a special international television studio for the occasion.
The studio will broadcast live from 12.00 pm CET, before and then after the main commemoration event. It will be available for all media via satellite and Press Center, and will be streamed on our YouTube.
DRAFT SCHEDULE (will be updated)
12:00 - 13:00 (CET)
Piotr Setkiewicz | Kierownik Centrum Badań Muzeum Auschwitz
Nikolaus Wachsmann | Birkbeck College, University of London
Host: Maciej Zakrocki | TVP
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Christoph Heubner | International Auschwitz Committee
Hannah Lessing | National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism
Romani Rose | Chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma
Host: Wojciech Soczewica | Director General of Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation
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Luis Ferreiro | CEO of Musealia
Mayor Sadiq Khan | Mayor of London
Maria Zalewska | Auschwitz‑Birkenau Memorial Foundation (USA)
Host: Aaron Dahmen | TVP
13:00 - 14:00
Phyllis Greenberg Heideman | President of International March of the Living
Jörg Lüer | Maximilian-Kolbe-Werk
Thorsten Wagner | FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics)
Host: Michał Broniatowski | TVP
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Rowan Barnett | Director of Google.org - Europe, Middle East & Africa
Mari-Noëlle Jégo Laveissière | CEO of Orange Europe
Wojciech Soczewica | Director General of Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation
Host: Witold Tabaka | TVP
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Sara Bloomfield | Director of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Dani Dayan | Chairman of Yad Vashem
Hanna Wróblewska | Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland
Host: Agata Konarska | TVP
14:00 - 15:00
Barbara Engelking | Director of Polish Center of Holocaust Research
Dariusz Stola | Chairman of the International Auschwitz Council
Stanisław Zalewski | Auschwitz Survivor
Host: Joanna Dunikowska-Paź
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Jack Fairweather | Author of “The Volunteer” and “The Prosecutor”
Jonathan Glazer | Director of “The Zone of Interest”
Piotr Setkiewicz | Kierownik Centrum Badań Muzeum Auschwitz
Host: Witold Tabaka
15:00-16:00
Marshal of the Senate of Poland Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska
President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel
16:00 | MAIN COMMEMORATION EVENT OF THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF AUSCHWITZ
AFTER THE EVENT
Joanna Dunikowska-Paź | TVP
Piotr Setkiewicz | Kierownik Centrum Badań Muzeum Auschwitz
Jacek Stawiski | Director of of Galicja Jewish Museum
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Frank Lowy | Holocaust Survivor, Philantropis, Donor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation
Host: Witold Tabaka | TVP
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Yishai Jusidman | Visual Artist
Wojciech Soczewica | Director General of Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation
Host: Maciej Zakrocki | TVP
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Michael Berenbaum | Director of Sigi Ziering Institute
cardinal Grzegorz Ryś | Cardinal, Metropolitan Archbishop of Łódź
rabbi Michael Schudrich | Chief Rabbi of Poland
Host: Agata Konarska | TVP
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Piotr Cywiński | Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
Marek Zając | Deputy Director of TVP's Programming Office and Secretary of the International Auschwitz Council
List of guests:
Frank Lowy, Holocaust Survivor
Stanisław Zalewski, Auschwitz Survivoe
Rowan Barnett, Director of Google.org for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa;
Michael Berenbaum, Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute;
Sara Bloomfield, Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington;
Dani Dayan, Director of Yad Vashem;
Barbara Engelking, Director of the Polish Center of Holocaust Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences;
Jack Fairweather, author of The Volunteer and The Prosecutor;
Luis Ferreiro, CEO of Musealia, which cooperated with the Auschwitz Museum to create a traveling exhibition “Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away”;
Jonathan Glazer, director of the film "The Zone of Interest"
Phyllis Greenberg Heideman, President of the March of the Living;
Christoph Heubner from the International Auschwitz Committee;
Mari-Noëlle Jégo Laveissière, CEO of Orange in Europe;
Yishai Jusidman, visual artist;
Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, Marshal of the Senate of Poland;
Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London;
Hannah Lessing, Secretary of the Austrian National Fund for Victims of National Socialism;
Jörg Lüer from Maximilian-Kolbe-Werk;
Petr Pavel, President of the Czech Republic
Romani Rose, Chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma;
Cardinal Grzegorz Ryś, Metropolitan Archbishop of Łódź;
Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland;
Dariusz Stola, Chairman of the International Auschwitz Council;
Piotr Setkiewicz, Head of the Research Center at the Auschwitz Museum;
Nikolaus Wachsmann, historian at Birkbeck College;
Thorsten Wagner from the international educational program FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics), which teaches ethics to various professional groups;
Hanna Wróblewska, Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Polish government;
Maria Zalewska, Executive Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation in the USA.
