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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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