On June 14th, marking the anniversary of the deportation of first Poles to KL Auschwitz, a new exhibition was made available to the public in two rooms on the ground floor of Block 11 in the former Auschwitz I camp, devoted to the resistance movement in the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp. Among the participants of the inauguration ceremony there were among others Deputy Prime Minister of Poland Beata Szydło and Deputy Minister of Culture and National Heritage Jarosław Sellin.
“Block 11 occupies a place of particular importance for the history of Auschwitz not only due to the fact that it used to constitute camp prison, but also that SS men shot thousands of people in its courtyard.
of Auschwitz not only due to the fact that it used to constitute camp prison, but also that SS men shot thousands of people in its courtyard. Many of them were involved in the resistance movement activity opposing the oppressor both within the camp as well as outside it. The exhibition was prepared in recent months shows comprehensive history of the camp resistance movement. In this historical space this story gains symbolical meaning”, said Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński, Director of the Auschwitz Museum.
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