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On 23 October, a ceremony was held at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Warsaw to transfer historical documents related, among other subjects, to the Second World War, the Holocaust, and German Nazi concentration camps. The documents were secured by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation through international cooperation following the cancellation of a controversial auction in Germany in November last year.

On 21 October 2026, the 44th meeting of the International Auschwitz Council was held at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in Warsaw. Among those attending was Minister of Culture and National Heritage Marta Cienkowska. The meeting was chaired by Prof. Dariusz Stola.

15 października w Kancelarii Prezesa Rady Ministrów w Warszawie odbyło się 16. posiedzenie Komitetu Międzynarodowego Fundacji Auschwitz-Birkenau, w którym udział wzięli przedstawiciele państw wspierających działania Fundacji na rzecz zachowania Miejsca Pamięci Auschwitz. Spotkaniu przewodniczył Marek Zając, przewodniczący Rady Fundacji. W posiedzeniu po raz pierwszy uczestniczyli nowi członkowie Komitetu reprezentujący Czarnogórę oraz Macedonię Północną.

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.

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.

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.