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

Library - Online Catalogue

The Museum library holdings comprise approximately 50 thousand volumes and 2.5 thousand periodicals devoted to the history of the Second World War, the Third Reich, the occupation, and the fate of victims in prisons and concentration camps, with special attention to the history of Auschwitz. The library resources also include dozens of maps.

The book collection

The books in the collection, in many languages, consist above all of published original sources and scholarly studies, but also include literary works (memoirs, novels, short stories, poems, and even plays). The library also has a collection of German publications (books and periodicals) from the Third Reich period (“Hitleriana”). These books deal mainly with political and social issues in Nazi Germany.

Using the library

The library collections are intended for the use of the Museum research staff, historians from Poland and other countries, students, journalists, and teachers. Museum employees can borrow items, while people from outside the Museum can use them in the reading room (6 desks and 2 computer workstations). The libraries can also order books from other libraries through inter-library loan.

Hours

From Monday to Friday 7:30-14.30

On-line catalogue

Click the link to access the on-line catalogue of the library.

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Rethinking Holocaust Education - the summary of an international project

13-10-2026
The eighteen-month international project Rethinking Holocaust Education, jointly carried out by the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz Museum and the Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum in Israel, concluded with the presentation of ten projects.

Webinar: Camp Orchestras in KL Auschwitz - 28 October 2026

13-10-2026
The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust invites you to take part in the webinar Camp Orchestras in KL Auschwitz on 28 October. The webinar will be held on Zoom, with simultaneous interpretation into Polish and English.

SAVE THE DATE: International Educational Conference on the 80th Anniversary of the Creation of the Museum, June 28-30, 2027

06-10-2026
The year 2027 marks the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial at the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp. “We had no idea if we would survive or not, but there were talks about some kind of a memorial... […] we only knew that the humanity must not forget about the crimes committed in Auschwitz,” stressed in one of his interviews Kazimierz Smoleń, an Auschwitz Survivor and the second director of the Museum.

Memoria Magazine no. 108

30-09-2026
'Memoria' is an online magazine dedicated to the history of Auschwitz, the Holocaust as well as memory and education around the world.

International Conference “Roma and Sinti. Historical Memory and the Present” | 24-25.11 | Call for participants

14-09-2026
“Roma and Sinti. Historical Memory and the Present” is the title of an international conference that will take place at the Auschwitz Museum on 24–25 November 2026.
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