"On Auschwitz" (73): Auschwitz functionary prisoners. Selected postwar fates
We discussed the group of functionary prisoners at Auschwitz in one of our previous podcasts. You can find it at: podcast.auschwitz.org. In...
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The official podcast of the Auschwitz Memorial. The history of Auschwitz is exceptionally complex. It combined two functions: a concentration camp and an extermination center. Nazi Germany p...
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"On Auschwitz (72): The first transports of women to KL Auschwitz
The Germans established the Auschwitz concentration camp in the spring of 1940 for man prisoners. The first women were deported to the camp...
"On Auschwitz (71): Testimonies about expulsions of the local population in connection with the expansion of KL Auschwitz
Before the war, Oświęcim was a town inhabited mainly by Poles and Jews. During the Second World War it was annexed to Germany and the name o...
"On Auschwitz" (70): Deportations of Jews from Slovakia
Among the many groups of people deported to the German camp Auschwitz, Slovakian Jews occupied a special place. They were brought to the cam...
"On Auschwitz" (69): Contacts between SS garrison of KL Auschwitz and the local population of the Oświęcim area (1940-45)
How the demographic structure of the area around the camp changed and what contacts existed between the SS camp garrison members and the loc...
"On Auschwitz" (68): Evacuation marches in the accounts of Survivors and other witnesses
On 17 January 1945, the SS began evacuating the Auschwitz camp. Around 56,000 men and women, prisoners under the escort of armed SS men, mar...
"On Auschwitz" (67): The SS Hygiene Institute
The Waffen-SS and Police Hygiene Institute at Auschwitz was established in the autumn of 1942. Its tasks included conducting hygienic and ba...
"On Auschwitz" (66): Ideological Training of the SS Garrison of the Camp
What did ideological training for SS personnel at the Auschwitz camp look like, and how did the ideology of national socialism influence the...
"On Auschwitz" (65): The trial of Rudolf Höss and other SS garrison members of Auschwitz
Some 8,200 SS men and 200 women overseers served in the camp garrison of the German Nazi camp Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945. How were the...
"On Auschwitz" (64): Block no. 11 in KL Auschwitz
Block 11 at Auschwitz I was isolated from the rest of the camp. It served as a prison, an execution site, and the quarters of the penal comp...
"On Auschwitz" (63): Punishments in KL Auschwitz
At Auschwitz a system of punishments was in place for prisoners who broke camp regulations. In addition to official penalties, SS garrison m...
"On Auschwitz" (62): Contemporary challenges of education at the Auschwitz Memorial
The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust, established as a result of the efforts of Auschwitz Survivors, has...
"On Auschwitz" (61): History of education at the Auschwitz Memorial
Education at the Auschwitz Memorial has been carried out since the Museum was established in 1947, and the first guides were Survivors who t...
"On Auschwitz" (60): Paragraph 175 prisoners in Auschwitz
Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code criminalized homosexual contacts between men. One possible punishment was imprisonment in a concentra...
“On Auschwitz”: First Transport of Poles to Auschwitz in the accounts of Survivors
On June 14, 1940, the Germans deported a group of 728 Poles from a prison in Tarnow to Auschwitz. Among them were soldiers of the September...
"On Auschwitz" (59): Block no. 10 in Auschwitz I and sterilization experiments
Block 10 at the Auschwitz I camp was the so-called experimental block. SS doctors conducted medical experiments there, including those focus...
"On Auschwitz" (58): Day of a prisoner at Auschwitz
The Auschwitz camp did not have a homogeneous character and was constantly changing during its operation. Dr Jacek Lachendro of the Auschwit...
"On Auschwitz" (57): Conservation at the Auschwitz Museum
The Auschwitz Memorial covers nearly 200 hectares of land and includes about 300 ruins and 155 buildings, but also a huge number of historic...
"On Auschwitz" (56): Holocaust denial - strategies of lies and distortion
Holocaust denial is nothing more than a conspiracy theory built on lies and hatred. Although it resembles flat-Earth claims in its approach...
"On Auschwitz" (55): The Evacuation and Liberation of Auschwitz in the Accounts of Witnesses
Some 7,500 prisoners of the German Nazi camp Auschwitz, including over 500 children, were liberated on January 27, 1945 by Red Army soldiers...