Workshops and lectures at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum
There is the possibility of extending your visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum to include workshops and/or lectures led by its education staff, on subjects such as:
- the place of KL Auschwitz in the Nazis’ plan to exterminate Europe’s Jewry,
- the meaning of Auschwitz in postwar European culture,
- the fate of children in KL Auschwitz,
- the women’s camp in KL Auschwitz,
- the fate of the Sinti and Roma, and the gypsy camp in Auschwitz II – Birkenau
- medical experiments in the camp,
- the camp resistance movement,
- perpetrators male and female – who were the Germans employed in the camp,
- “extermination through work” – the slave labour of prisoners through the example of the IG Farben concern and Auschwitz III Monowitz,
- legal and illegal artistic work in the camp,
- the figure of cavalry captain Witold Pilecki – the “volunteer to Auschwitz”,
- selected stories of individual prisoners and victims of Auschwitz based on camp documentation, documentary film footage, and audiovisual recordings of testimonies given by former inmates of the camp.
Meeting with an eye-witness to history at the Auschwitz Museum or in Krakow
At the time of writing there are still eye-witnesses to the camp history – former prisoners of KL Auschwitz – living in Krakow and the surrounding area. Organisation of meetings with such survivors is possible in exceptional cases, subject to their health at any given time.
It is also possible to organise meetings with “Children of the Holocaust” – people who survived the Krakow ghetto and the German occupation as children.
Another type of eye-witness to history are those who risked their own lives to save Jews from extermination. Such individuals are awarded the title of “Righteous among the Nations of the World” by the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem.