The objects found at Auschwitz
Wednesday 25 January 2017 at 8:30 PM
Object found at Auschwitz II (Brzezinka). Panstwowe Muzeum Oswiecim.
Some 16,000 objects belonging to Jews murdered in the gas chambers of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp were found in 1967 during excavations near Krematorium III. They are now deposited in the Auschwitz museum. What do these thermometers, bottles of medicine, cutlery and watches, filmed in 1967 by the filmmaker Andrzej Brzozowski, teach us about the genocide of the European Jews?
followed by the projection of:
Archaeologia by Andrzej Brzozowski
Poland, documentary, 16 min, Film Polski and Procidis, 1967
In partnership with:
In the presence of Piotr Cywinski, director of the Auschwitz museum, and historians Jean-Charles Szurek and Annette Wieviorka.
Led by Olivier Lalieu, historian, responsible for the development of places of memory and external projects, Memorial of the Shoah.
free entry by reservation
