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

The Memorial has expanded its Collections with an exceptional document by Auschwitz survivor Alfred Kantor, who was deported to the camp from the Theresienstadt ghetto in late 1943. "The Diary of Alfred Kantor" includes his drawings and notes, made both during his imprisonment and in the postwar period, constitute a remarkable visual testimony of the Holocaust and the experience of prisoners.

On January 27, 2026 a group 21 Survivors of Auschwitz gathered at the site of the former Auschwitz camp to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp. 

The exhibition “Auschwitz – Experiences of Camp Prisoners” in Blocks 8 and 9 presents the fates and experiences of those registered in the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz.

Holocaust denial is not just a lie. It is a tool of ideological hatred, spread today primarily through social media. Its aim is the systematic erasure of the truth about the greatest crime in the history of Europe. Thanks to the new “Stop Denial” tool, everyone can now easily take meaningful action to defend historical truth and the dignity of the victims of Auschwitz.

The new online bookstore of the Museum is now available at books.auschwitz.org. In addition to printed publications in many languages, ebooks are also available on the website.

A new research laboratory was opened at the Auschwitz Museum. It will allow specialized research on objects from the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. 

The new laboratory is equipped to carry out physicochemical research and molecular biology analysis, including microbiology and genetics.