“The Minister of Culture and National Heritage withdrew the nominations of Ms. Beata Szydlo and Mr. Pawel Hudzik of the Council of the Auschwitz Land Residents' Memorial Museum, appointed by the previous leadership of the Ministry, and nominated Ms. Dorota Niedziela – Deputy Speaker of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland and Mr. Andrzej Kakorzyk – Deputy Director of the Auschwitz Museum, as his representatives in the Council to appoint two candidates for the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the 15-person committee. The board of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum, appointed by the authorities of the Małopolskie Voivodeship, is the result of the statute of the museum and the co-management agreement between the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of 31 August 2023. and in Malopolska Voivodeship,” reads the statement published by the Ministry.
Moreover, Minister Sienkiewicz decided to cancel the approval of the candidature of the doctor. Jakub Przewozhnik as Deputy Director of the Museum of the Memory of the Inhabitants of the Land of Auschwitz.
Since August 2023, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum is a cultural institution jointly managed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Lesser Poland Voivodeship as the museum's organizer.
Since 2018, the Museum of Remembrance of the Inhabitants of the Land of Auschwitz is jointly managed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and the Oblast of Auschwitz. In April of this year, a letter of intent was signed regarding the transfer of the museum's organizer from the Oświęcim County to the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. The result of the change was the termination of the mutual agreement between the County of Oświęcim and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage on the co-management of the museum and the conclusion of a similar agreement between the Minister and Małopolska. Warship.
The museum is included in the register of cultural institutions protected by the Małopolskie Voivodeship and remains a local government cultural institution jointly managed and operated by the Minister and the Voivodeship.
Oświęcim Land Inhabitants Memorial Museum
The Auschwitz Memorial Museum was established in 2018. Its headquarters was established in the historical building of the former grain and mill factory and tobacco factory, which in 1940-44 as SS “Lagerhaus” warehouse. KL Auschwitz was a support facility for officers of the former Nazi concentration and extermination camp in Germany.
The museum opened to the public in April 2022 and provides visitors with a permanent exhibition that tells about the realities of life in Auschwitz and the region, in the pre-World War II period, under the German occupation, as well as the help of the residents. Auschwitz region to the prisoners of KL Auschwitz, including the activities of the partisan home army units and the organization of a perfectly functioning escape channel from the camp. In addition, the museum designed and built an educational trail for children with 8 spatial arrangements on the theme of the permanent exhibition.
The legitimate purpose of the museum is to present the centuries-old history of the land of Auschwitz through the prism of the fate of its inhabitants, taking into account the ethnic and cultural diversity that forms the local identity, including showing the tragic situation of the local population. After the outbreak of the Second World War and under the conditions of occupation terror and in the context of the extermination plan, the aid to the prisoners of the German concentration and extermination camp KL Aushwitz-Birkenau, provided by the inhabitants of the Auschwitz region and the Polish resistance movement. carried out in the camp.
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