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Come and join us online!

Puzzles to figure out and a virtual walk around well-known places in Oświęcim and surrounding area are the latest suggestions from the Remembrance Museum of Land of Oświęcim Residents for spending your time while staying at home. As the pandemic continues, so the Remembrance Museum continues its activities online as staff work from home writing… Read More

Virtual Remembrance Museum

In accordance with the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage’s guidelines, the Remembrance Museum of Land of Oświęcim Residents would like to inform you that all educational activities and planned activities are suspended until 25th March 2020. Due to the extraordinary circumstances at present, the Remembrance Museum is opening new forms of communication and presentation.… Read More

Woman’s face of aid

This is the title of a conference for both layman and expert dedicated to the role of female inhabitants of the Land of Oświęcim in rendering aid to KL Auschwitz prisoners. The organisers – The Remembrance Museum of Land of Oświęcim Residents and the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust – warmly… Read More

Mieszkańcy Gminy Brzeszcze t≤dumnie przybyli na spotkanie z historią

The long list of Brzeszcze inhabitants who helped KL Auschwitz prisoners

Over 170 people attended the encounter with history entitled “We will remember it all. The fate of Brzeszcze inhabitants during WWII.” Seventy-five years have passed since the end of the war. However, the number of those gathered in the Voluntary Fire Service Hall at Piastowska street shows how the fate of people under the German… Read More

How Brzeszcze locals helped prisoners and the evicted

The Remembrance Museum of the Land of Oświęcim warmly invites you to the encounter with history entitled “We will remember it all… the fate of Brzeszcze locals during WWII.” The Programme: “Aid rendered by Brzeszcze locals to the evicted from Bor during WWII.” Zofia Przybyłowska “Jan Nosal – the man who gave up his life… Read More

Młodzież w trakcie realizacji projektu edukacyjnego w Brzeszczach.

Educational history field trip

The camp baths in Brzeszcze and the former pre-school building in Bor in which the Germans incarcerated the female penal company from KL Auschwitz during WWII were the sites visited by young people from the Brzeszcze municipality. The “walk through history” was organised as part of the project “Knowing the risk...” Pupils were able to… Read More

Mementoes of Przecieszyn’s heroic inhabitant in the Remembrance Museum

Valuable photographs, documents and every day articles connected to Helena Płotnicka and her family are now in the Remembrance Museum of Land of Oświęcim Residents. The transfer contract was signed in Przecieszyn by Helena’s granddaughter, Krystyna Rybak and Remembrance Museum director Dorota Mleczko. Helena Płotnicka, Przecieszyn inhabitant was a member of the resistance movement during…

75 years since the liberation of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau and Oświęcim.

Seventy-five years have passed since the liberation of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau and the town of Oświęcim. Soviet soldiers crossed the borders of the town and the gates of the German concentration camp on 27th January 1945. Approximately 7,000 prisoners – men, women and children- were liberated from the camp. The Germans had led over 50,000 prisoners… Read More

A round-up of the year

Although the Remembrance Museum began its activity only in June 2018, it has already organised many interesting events, has collected over 1000 artefacts and taken several dozen recordings. Our institution fulfils its aims through educational, publication and exhibitory activities. So far, we have co-organised a mobile exhibition with pictures from John Paul II’s visit to… Read More

“Sites of Remembrance” available for download on Google Play

The App “Sites of Remembrance” based on Dr. Andrzej Strzelecki’s publication entitled “Topography of Remembrance” published by the Remembrance Museum of Land of Oświęcim Residents is available in the Google Play shop. The App may be downloaded HERE. It was created by Oświęcim District school pupils and the idea behind it was to interest young…