Auschwitz Museum acquires the original of illustrated diary made by Survivor Alfred Kantor The Memorial has expanded its Collections with an exceptional document by Auschwitz survivor Alfred Kantor, who was deported to the camp from the Theresienstadt ghetto in late 1943. "The Diary of Alfred Kantor" includes his drawings and notes, made both during his imprisonment and in the postwar period ...
All over the world, Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror, genocide, and the Shoah. It was established by Germans in 1940, in the suburbs of Oswiecim, a Polish city that was annexed to the Third Reich by the Nazis. Its name was changed to Auschwitz, which also became the name of Konzentrationslager Auschwitz. The direct reason for the establishment of the camp was the fact that mass arrests ...
El Museo Estatal Auschwitz-Birkenau ofrece un completo servidor de internet en inglés y polaco. De forma particular recomendamos las subpáginas dedicadas a la historia del antiguo campo de concentración y exterminio alemán nazi así como a la organización de la visita al Lugar de la Memoria y a nuestro programa educativo. Para comodidad de los usuarios de todo el mundo, ofrecemos ...
The Auschwitz Museum hosts an exhibition of the Prussian Blue painting series by the artist Yishai Jusidman. This is the first large-scale contemporary art exhibition at the Museum. Nearly 50 works, which have not yet been displayed in Europe, are displayed in the rooms of Block 21 at the former Auschwitz I camp. The nearly fifty artworks in Prussian Blue are rendered almost exclusively in ...
Basic information on Auschwitz A set of fundamental, yet not always widely known facts about Auschwitz that can help in preparing informational materials and avoid using incorrect and ahistorical statements: Auschwitz (Auschwitz-Birkenau, Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, KL Auschwitz) is the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp, recognized as the most emblematic symbol of the ...