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Father Maximilian Maria Kolbe, a Franciscan friar, was killed in the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz 82 years ago on August 14, 1941. The anniversary of this event was commemorated at the Memorial. In front of Block 11, which housed the camp prison and in which the friar was murdered, a solemn Holy Mass was celebrated.

Visitors to the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum can again enter the building of the so-called central sauna, located on the grounds of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

The international conference Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire, will take place on 15–17 September 2025 in Kraków, Poland. The Auschwitz Memorial is one of the partners of the event.

Eighty-one years ago, on the night of 2 to 3 August 1944, the Germans liquidated the so-called "family camp for Gypsies" (Zigeunerfamilienlager) in Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Approximately 4,300 individuals, including children, women, and men, who were the last Roma prisoners of the camp, were murdered in gas chambers

On the 81st anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum paid tribute to all those who, in August 1944, rose up in the fight for freedom and independence of occupied Poland.

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