On 1 October in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland in Warsaw, the 14th Session of the International Committee of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation took place, with representatives from countries supporting the Foundation's efforts to preserve the Auschwitz Memorial Site. Besides matters related to the conservation of the Memorial, an important topic of discussion was the upcoming 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
On 20 June at the Warsaw headquarters of KPMG, which has supported the Foundation’s activities from the start, the 19th session of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation Council took place.
In 2023, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation (ABF) donated a record sum of PLN 27.5 million for conservation works to the Museum. The total support provided by ABF to date has reached nearly PLN 126 million, and the value of the Foundation's Endowment Fund in 2023 exceeded EUR 177 million.
Google will support the development of the "Auschwitz in Front of Your Eyes" project, enabling people from around the world to visit the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with a live guide in an online format. Through $1M in funding and support from Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, the Memorial will expand education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust to reach people everywhere, including making it accessible to people with disabilities, those in remote areas and unable to travel there.
Taiwan will allocate 50,000 US dollars to fund a special scholarship program for Ukrainian women conservators carried out by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation and the Auschwitz Museum. These conservators were forced to escape from their country.
More Articles...
- Award for technology changing the world for better – for developing online guided visits of the Memorial
- The USA will support the project of a virtual online tour of the Memorial
- 18th Session of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation Council
- The beginning of conservation of shoes of the youngest victims of Auschwitz
- Malta will support the educational activity of the Foundation
- To date, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation has supported preservation efforts at the Memorial with over PLN 100 million.
- German support for a special scholarship programme for Ukrainian conservators at the Memorial
- BIM digital building information modelling technology supports conservation at the Auschwitz Museum
- 12th Session of the International Committee of the Foundation
- International help and campaign for the conservation of 8,000 shoes of child victims of Auschwitz
- 17th session of the Foundation Council
- Стипендії для консерваторів-реставраторів з України
- Monaco increases its support to the Foundation
- The visit of Claudio Javier Rozencwaig at the Foundation
- Conservation of wooden residential and sanitary barracks at the former camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau
- 11th session of the International Committee of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation
- Another support for the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation from Ireland
- 15. session of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation Council
- Turkey has increased its support for the Foundation
- Conservation works have been completed on two guard towers at Auschwitz II-Birkenau