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Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust constitutes the integral part of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The Center coordinates various activities, mainly, aimed at teachers, researchers, high school and college students. Additionally, it publishes educational materials.
The mission of ICEAH is to educate about the tragedy of the Victims and teach the history one of the last readably preserved of vast Death Camps.
The authenticity of Auschwitz-Birkenau and survivors’ testimonies enable learning and understanding the mechanism of development of structural hatred which resulted in genocide in Auschwitz.
Education at the Memorial Site is meant to foster reflection on the meaning of personal responsibility in modern Europe and all over the world.
The Center coordinates educational projects aimed at high school and college students, teachers as well as other professional, social or religious groups from all over the world.
Contact:Marta Berecka [email protected]
Learning the history of Auschwitz and fate of the Victims constitute the main goal of educational projects which have been carried out within the authentic space of the Memorial Site.
Projects include: • postgraduate studies• seminars• study visits• educational workshops• academic conferences• thematic sessions• international summer academies
Contact:Marta Berecka [email protected]
Visitor Services section organizes guided tours on the grounds of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial both for organized groups and individual visitors. In 2013, 1.33 million visitors including 63% young people, visited the former camp.
Contact:Magdalena [email protected]
The subject of Auschwitz receives growing interest of media.In 2013, over 145 film crews and over 40 photographers from 29 countries requested permission to film at the Site.
The majority of them were from Poland (14), Germany (18), the United Kingdom (25), France (18), and Italy (18). For the first time we hosted the film crew from the United Arab Emirates.
Contact:Magdalena [email protected]
The concept of the new building for the Visitors’ Services Center was drawn up in 2009.
Work on the further stages of the investment implementation is in progress at the moment.
Contact:Magdalena [email protected]
The ICEAH organizes historical and educational trainings and draws up guidelines for 270 educators, who guide at the Memorial Site, to raise systematically their qualifications.
Guides who speak the following languages are
available:• English• Croatian • Czech• French • Hebrew• Spanish• Japanese• Dutch• German• Norwegian
• Polish• Portuguese• Russian• Serbian• Slovakian• Swedish• Hungarian• Italian
Contact:Tomasz [email protected]
Working for the Museum allows volunteers to learn or extend their knowledge about Auschwitz and Shoah as well as confront themselves personally with the significance and message of the Site.
Two types of voluntary work at the Museum:• on-site in Oświęcim, working full time at the Museum• distance – working on various external Museum projects
Contact:Katarzyna [email protected]
Additionally, the Center offers a wide range oftravelling exhibitions. It creates a uniqueopportunity to reach those who are unable tovisit the Museum and learn about the formerAuschwitz-Birkenau camp at the Site.
Contact:Teresa [email protected]
Permanent exhibitions at theMemorial Site, include: • main exhibition, in the original blocks of the former Auschwitz I• system of information and commemorative plaques at the former camps of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II • exhibition in the ”Sauna”
building• national exhibitions
The Center offers open on-line lessons through the Museum website: “Auschwitz – Concentration and Extermination Camp.” (Polish, English, Persian,
Arabic, Spanish, and Portuguese). “People and War: Beginning of World War II Through Eyewitnesses’ Testimonies.” “In the Face of the Holocaust. Rescuers, Passive Witnesses, Perpetrators, and
their Supporters/Followers.”
Closed on-line courses are organized on the e-learning platform. Courses available on the platform, include:• “The History of Auschwitz.” • “The Road to Genocide: Indirect Causes of the Holocaust.” Courses take place over one and a half months and are organized twice a year.
Contact:Agnieszka [email protected]
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The Center prepares educational publications for teachers, high school and college students as well as educators from other organizations that deal with disseminating knowledge about Auschwitz and the Holocaust.
Publications that have been issued so far, include:
