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The International Auschwitz Committee was founded by survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The main objective of our work: Auschwitz shall happen never again! Please feel invited to get more information about the IAC and its work.
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Remembrance on January 27th, 2013
“Anti-Semitism is increasingly becoming socially acceptable”
On 27 January 2013, people around the globe remembered the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The survivors of Auschwitz remind todays societies: “Remember: when injustices take place, when people are discriminated against and persecuted – never remain indifferent. Indifference kills.” Read more
80 Years since the Reichstag Fire
The Trail of Flames
27.2.1933 – The terrible trail of flames has started. First of all, the Reichstag burns. Two months later the flames devour thousands of books on the square beside Berlin’s Opera House. And finally, human beings are burned in the crematoria at Auschwitz and other places. Read more
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Speech given by UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon
2011 – Mr Ban Ki-moon: "Above all, it is a day to speak out … to speak out against those who would deny the Holocaust, who would diminish it or "explain" it away." Read more
14th General Assembly of the IAC, 2012
Central challenge: the meaning and the preservation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial
From 5 to 8 September, survivors of the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz/Birkenau gathered together in Oswiecim/Auschwitz. The survivors, who came from eleven different countries, met for the fourteenth General Assembly of the International Auschwitz Committee (IAC). Read more
Coordinating Office
IAC is based in Berlin
The Coordinating Office was founded in 2002. Since then the IAC is based in Berlin. Read more
