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Online Visit to the Auschwitz Memorial for European Parliamentarians

17-04-2026
European parliamentarians took part on 15 April in a special online visit to the Auschwitz Memorial using the platform “Auschwitz. In Front of Your Eyes.” The event in Brussels was organized jointly with the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation as part of the observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom HaShoah.

33rd March of the Living

14-04-2026
On 14 April 2026, the 33rd March of the Living took place at the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. Leading the march was a group of around 40 survivors of Auschwitz and the Holocaust. Among them was 98-year-old Nate (Nathan) Leipciger, who took part in the march for the 22nd time.

Call for participants of the German-Polish seminar “How to Deal with a Difficult Past?”

07-04-2026
The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, in cooperation with the Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen Museums and Memorials, introduces the call for participants for the fourth edition of the seminar How to Deal with a Difficult Past? – Educational Perspectives on National Socialism, Shoah, and the Second World War.

Memoria Magazine no. 102

31-03-2026
'Memoria' is an online magazine dedicated to the history of Auschwitz, the Holocaust as well as memory and education around the world.

“Deportations of Jews from Slovakia to Auschwitz.” New lesson and podcast now available

26-03-2026
The deportations of Jews from Slovakia to the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz are the focus of a new online lesson and an episode of the On Auschwitz podcast series, prepared by the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust.

Sharing memory. Summary of the international youth project NESHAMA

20-03-2026
More than 200 young people and 40 teachers from five countries, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, and Poland, took part in a seminar at the Auschwitz Museum from 15 to 17 March. It was the culmination of the year-long project NESHAMA – Network for European Youth for Holocaust Remembrance.