The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum & Memorial Site. The Former German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp: The History of the Institution of Memory and its Operating Principles

• Authors: Franciszek Dąbrowski

Abstracts

EN

The paper describes the activities, structures and tasks of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, one of the most important remembrance institutions and the most important Holocaust Memorial in Poland. The short outline of the camp’s wartime history is followed by sections concerning the post-war site’s use and commemoration, the forming of the Museum, concepts of its shape, and contemporary challenges to its activities. The selected Museum’s structures were discussed: the archives, exhibitions, research, collections, conservation and visitor services departments.

Keywords

EN

Auschwitz; Holocaust Memorial; archives; museum collections; conservation; research

• Publisher: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
• Journal: Institute of National Remembrance Review
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 2
• Pages: 52-141

Contributors

author

Franciszek Dąbrowski

• Instytut Pamięci Narodowej
• Akademia Sztuki Wojennej

• https://orcid.org/0000000242556985

Identifiers

DOI

10.48261/INRR200203

Biblioteka Nauki

1956431