History of Auschwitz-Birkenau

On the occasion of the seventh anniversary of the first deportation of Polish captives to camp Auschwitz, the exhibition was revised under assistance of former inmates. However, this exhibition was influenced by the Cold War and next to pictures of Jewish ghettos, photos of slums in the USA were presented.

After Stalin's death, a new exhibition was planned in 1955, which is basically still valid today. In 1959 every