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Auschwitz Museum

Preserving memory: project launched to save shoes belonging to victims of Auschwitz

The initiative seeks to ensure that the shoes on display remain a powerful testimony for as long as possible. Auschwitz Museum

The project will see 8,000 shoes – most of which belonged to children – undergo a state-of-the-art conservation process aimed at slowing down their decay.

Show some respect! Woman sparks outrage after posing outside Auschwitz ‘gate of death’

As the world pays tribute to those who died in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Auschwitz Museum has hit out against 'Holocaust tourists' who take inappropriate photos at the site of the former Nazi-German extermination camp.

Chilling new book reveals meticulous planning behind Auschwitz death camp

The Polish-English book “Auschwitz Bauleitung. Designing a Death Camp” sets out in shocking detail how the full potential of German technology and industry took part in building the death apparatus that claimed the lives of 1.3 million victims.

Holocaust survivors publish cookbook of recipes that helped them endure horrors of Auschwitz

Entitled Honey Cakes and Latkes: Recipes from the Old World, the cookbook is not about what prisoners were forced to eat in the camp but rather an affirmation of life, before and after the camp, told through the unifying medium of food recipes.

Ukrainian president can give speech from Auschwitz Museum

The Auschwitz Museum has announced that it is ready to allow Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, to deliver an address from the Memorial Site.

Auschwitz Museum calls on UNESCO to move session from Russia

The Auschwitz Museum has appealed to UNESCO not to hold the 45th session of the World Heritage Committee in Kazan, the Russian Federation, in late June 2022.

Fate of people living in Oświęcim, which Nazis renamed Auschwitz, explored in online exhibition

Published by the Auschwitz Museum, the presentation of text, photographs, charts, maps and graphics tells readers about how the Germans set out to murder the town’s Jews, expel the remaining Poles and turn the town into a city built specially for the SS – ‘Musterstadt Auschwitz.

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Scientist’s extraordinary photograph of ‘nuclear magnetic resonance tubes’ wins top competition

Founded by Chemistry Europe, a European association representing over 75,000 chemists, the magazine challenged the public to submit images that demonstrated their passion for chemistry.

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Warsaw’s secret war against Moscow’s spies: Poland’s intelligence services have gone into overdrive to combat Putin’s covert assault

The arrest last week of a ‘dangerous’ spy network in Poland is the latest in the country’s secret war against Russian intelligence since Putin’s troops attacked Ukraine.

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