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The President of Poland Andrzej Duda and the Vice-President of the United States Mike Pence at the Auschwitz Memorial
18-02-2019
On 15th February, the President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda and the Vice-President of the United States Mike Pence together with their spouses visited the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum. They were accompanied on the tour of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp by the director of the Museum, Dr. Piotr M.A. Cywiński. Other guests included the President of the World Jewish Congress Ronald S. Lauder, Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich and Franciscan friar Rev. Piotr Cuber, guardian of the St. Maximilian Center in Harmęże.
The Eiss Archive, a testimony to the rescue of Jews by Polish diplomats during the Holocaust was presented at Belweder in Warsaw
18-02-2019
The so-called, Eiss Archive is one of the largest collections documenting the rescue activities of Polish diplomacy for Jews at risk of the Holocaust, is already in Poland. On 12 February, the documents were officially presented at the Belvedere in Warsaw, in the presence of the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda; the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture and National Heritage Prof. Piotr Gliński; and the Polish ambassador to Switzerland, Jakub Kumoch. All documents will be transferred to the Auschwitz Museum.
2nd International Conference: Medical Review - Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire". 7-8 May 2019.
07-02-2019
The violations of medical ethics during the Second World War, with special focus on the behaviour of physicians and other medical professionals in Nazi medical institutions and concentration camps, will be the main topic of the 2nd international conference "Medical Review – Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire". It will take place in Cracow on 7-8 May 2019.
Unique object associated with Capt. Witold Pilecki at the Museum Collections
04-02-2019
The Museum Collection has been enriched with a unique object associated with Captain Witold Pilecki, co-founder of the resistance movement in the German Nazi Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. It is a drawing made in the summer of 1943 in Nowy Wiśnicz immediately after his escape from the camp. It portrays Witold Pilecki and Tomasz Serafiński - the person whose identity Pilecki’s assumed as an Auschwitz prisoner. The Museum acquired the drawing from Tomasz Serafiński’s daughter - Maria.
11th session of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation Council
31-01-2019
The 11th session of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation Council was held in Oświęcim on 28 January. The main task of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation is to finance the conservation of the authentic remains of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Marek Zając presided over the meeting.
The words of hatred poison the imagination and stupefy consciousness. The 74th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
27-01-2019
On January 27, more than 50 former prisoners of Auschwitz and Holocaust survivors met at the former Auschwitz camp to commemorate the 74th anniversary of the liberation of this German Nazi concentration and extermination camp. The event was held under the honorary patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda.