Auschwitz-Birkenau State MuseumThe Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, situated on the sites of the former concentration and death camps Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau, has become one of Europe's most popular tourist destinations. Scholarly critiques of the site focus on the ramifications of ...
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1 Much of the discussion of memory is already related to the Holocaust (Young 1993, 1994, Horkheimer and Adorno 1972, Felman 1992, Huyssen 1995) and this paper studies a central Holocaust memory-object--the Auschwitz-Birkenau State museum. 2 The research offered here looks at the ...
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This paper analyzes the use of photographic portraits in an installation in the so-called Central Camp Sauna building at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (ABSM). I analyze the portraits as objects whose meaning and uses have been structured by their history of material transformations, including...
Photo: Piles upon piles of human hair... chilling. You could see strands of different colours. Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau 14,793 reviews #1 of 39 attractions in Oswiecim ul. Wiezniow Oswiecimia 20 Entrance to the Museum is located at Stanis...
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Owicim established on the site ofthe former Nazi concentration and annihilation camp commenced its work in 1947.The historical objects made of paper and leather are stored in the Archive and Collection Departments. Among the exhibits are ...
In 2009, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum took the experimental initiative of creating a Facebook page; since then, it has established accounts on other social media platforms, such as Instagram and Twitter, and is now followed by more than one million users across these networks. This ...
In the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Owicim, Poland (A-BSM) a new research has been started on the use of vaporised hydrogen peroxide (VHP) as a disinfecting agent. The aims of the study were: to identify microorganisms inhabiting historical cardboard using molecular methods (MALDI-TOF ...
The Collections Department of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum preserves a number of manuscripts of popular songs arranged by members of the Auschwitz I Men's Orchestra. These songs, written with great care in black ink on Beethoven Papier brand music paper, often bear highly ironic, but a...