About the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Auschwitz is a worldwide known symbol of terror, genocide and the Holocaust. The concentration camp was established by the German Nazis in 1940.

A strange heaviness hung in the air at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, about an hour and a half east of Krakow, Poland.Visitors slipped quietly in and out of a series of large brick buildings ...

The Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum on Saturday ripped a New Yorker article about the Holocaust in Poland, saying the piece was full of “lies and distortions.” The magazine story explores a ...

WARSAW — Employees of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum discovered handwritten inscriptions in shoes belonging to children who were sent to the Nazi death camp in Poland.The discoveries were ...

The Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum has launched a two-year effort to preserve 8,000 shoes that belonged to children before they were murdered at the Nazi German death camp. In all, about 110,000 ...

These are among the reasons that the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum has decided to revamp its exhibitions for the 21st century. The museum’s decision is a wise one.

(Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum) “The material evidence of the crimes must last as long as possible,” said Margrit Borman, ...

OSWIECIM, Poland — In a modern conservation laboratory on the grounds of the former Auschwitz camp, a man wearing blue rubber gloves uses a scalpel to scrape away rust from the eyelets of small ...

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum has announced plans to launch a traveling exhibit called “Not long ago. Not far away,” as first reported by the New York Times on July 26.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum has launched an effort to preserve 8,000 shoes that belonged to children before they were murdered at the Nazi camp. Skip Navigation. Share on Facebook; ...