On June 14, 1940, the first transport of prisoners was brought to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. That first transport consisted of 728 Polish political prisoners, among whom were also a small number of Jews. As the Holocaust progressed, the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp became one of the main sites of the Shoah - the mass murder of European Jewry. Nearly 1.1 million people were put to death there between 1940 and 1945, the great majority of whom were Jewish. Over time, Aus

Podcast: the film chronicle of the liberation of Auschwitz The Auschwitz camp was liberated on January 27, 1945, by soldiers of the Red Army. Well-known are the scenes captured by Soviet cameramen, which, although not showing the exact moment of liberation, are important documents revealing the crimes committed by the Germans in Auschwitz. It is essential to remember that some of the film material was created for propaganda purposes. Edyta Chowaniec from the Film Archive of the Museum explains t