International Auschwitz Council at the Treblinka Museum

On Wednesday, the 41st session of the International Auschwitz Council — an advisory and consultative body to the Prime Minister — concluded. The Council’s work focuses on issues related to the protection and development of the grounds of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, as well as other Holocaust memorial sites. The two-day session opened with an inspection of the new exhibition and education building currently under construction on the museum grounds.

The project is being funded through designated grants from the budget of the Mazovian Voivodeship Government and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, with financing provided from the state budget. Construction is expected to be completed by the end of 2025. The new facility is set to play a key role in the educational and exhibition activities of the museum.

Council members visited the site of the former German Nazi extermination camp Treblinka II, where they were briefed on the site’s history and the scope of ongoing archaeological research.

On the second day of the session, held at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in Warsaw, Dr. Edward Kopówka, Director of the Treblinka Museum, presented information regarding the Treblinka Memorial Site and the results of archaeological investigations conducted on the grounds of the former extermination camp, the Labour Camp, and the Execution Site.

Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński, Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, also delivered a report on the museum’s activities since the previous Council session and provided a summary of the commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of KL Auschwitz.