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On September 15, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture and National Heritage Prof. Piotr Gliński signed at the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum a funding agreement for the project of adapting the building of the so-called Old Theatre for the activities of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust.

"Auschwitz. Death factory. Topography and Daily Life of a Concentration and Extermination camp” is the title of the exposition, which will be on display until 30 October 2016 at the camp’s laundry building on the premises of the former Auschwitz I camp. The exhibition was prepared by the National Socialism Documentation Center in Cologne, Peter Siebers and Prof. Gideon Greif, in cooperation with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

1 September 2016 marks ten years of the work of Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński as the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Within the last ten years, the Memorial has developed dynamically and changed in several aspects.

Original camp correspondence of Mykoła Kłymyszyn a prisoner of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz no. 57340, are now in the Archive of the Memorial.

About 2,000 people participated in the events commemorating St. Maximilian Kolbe murdered 75 years ago, on August 14, 1941, at the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz.

72 years ago, on August 12, 1944, the first transport of civilian inhabitants of Warsaw arrested en masse after the outbreak of the uprising and imprisoned in a transitional camp in Pruszków-Durchgangslager 121, arrived at the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau. On the occasion of the anniversary, the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust has opened a new exhibition in the Google Cultural Institute: “Deportation of Warsaw inhabitants to Auschwitz after the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising“.