In 2019, we will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the installation of the railway siding and unloading ramp inside the Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. This ended almost at gas chambers and crematoria II and III. From mid-May 1944, transports of Jews were deported by the Germans for direct extermination from Hungary, the Litzmannstadt (Łódź) and Theresienstadt Ghettos and Slovakia, among others. Transports of Poles from the Warsaw Uprising deported from the transit camp in Pruszków also ended their journey there.
The President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda has assumed honorary patronage of the event.
"The commemoration event organised by the team of the Museum, with great dedication to the memory of the victims of Auschwitz, brings the truth about the German crimes which is a warning to contemporary and future generations,” wrote minister Wojciech Kolarski from the Chancellery of the President.
27 JANUARY 2019
12.30 – main commemoration event in the so-called “Sauna” building on the premises of the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp
14.00 – commemoration ceremony – prayers and tributes at the Monument to the Victims