
The fate of the prisoners and the actions of the perpetrators have been well documented in both the spheres of education and media. On the other hand, the incredible aid rendered to the prisoners, often at the risk of one’s life and one’s family’s life, by local inhabitants and the difficulties of their daily life under the occupation and in the shadow of barbed wire, has not net been adequately commemorated. It was not until 22nd April 2001, on the 60th anniversary of the displacement, that two plaques (in Polish and English) dedicated to the evicted Poles, were unveiled in front of the Gate of Death of Auschwitz-Birkenau II.