He was a co-founder and co-creator of our house: The International Youth Meeting Centre owes its charm and attractivity towards young people from all over the world, who come to this place in order study the history of the German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau but also to get to know the memories of the survivors, to his creativity and architectural concept.
On October 21st a concert of Adam Makowicz, polish and world-renowned jazz legend, took place at the International Youth Meeting Centre.
On July 29th Pope Francis visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The Holy Father went silently through Auschwitz I and met with survivors of KL Auschwitz at Block 11.
On July 6th a delegation led by Dr. Dietmar Woidke, Minister-President of Brandenburg, visited the International Youth Meeting Centre in Oświęcim/Auschwitz.
On the 11th of June Sigmar Gabriel – Head of the German Social Democrats (SPD) and Vice-Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany visited Oświęcim.
We are pleased to inform that the Director of the International Youth Meeting Centre Foundation, Mr. Leszek Szuster, was among the laureates of the newspaper Gazeta Krakowska plebiscite “Personality of the Year 2016” in the category Culture in the district of Oświęcim.
During the summing up of the project „Learning through Meeting”, realized in the IYMC by Volkwagen AG in cooperation with the International Auschwitz Committee, the youth representatives of IG Metall-Wolfsburg donated 1000 Euro to the International Youth Meeting Centre for the implementation of the Ukrainian-Polish theatre workshop “Light in the Darkness”.
On July 12th an evening dedicated to the “Persecution of homosexuals in the time of National-Socialism”, with a special focus on two biographies, took place in the Forum of the IYMC.
On June 21st 2016 the festivities on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the International Youth Meeting Centre in Oświęcim took place at the Institute for Church and Judaism of the Humboldt University in Berlin.
On the 29th of May the Documentation Centre “Witnesses” was inaugurated at the International Youth Meeting Centre in Oświęcim/Auschwitz.
We offer our guests three spaciously laid out pavilions with 100 accommodations in double, triple, quadruple and quintuple rooms.
