Closure for death camp

29th October 2011

The IPN hopes to bring closure to the Auschwitz research

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A final big effort to gather specific evidence relating to the atrocities that occurred at Auschwitz-Birkenau began this week in Krakow.

The investigation is being carried out by the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), and according to the Gazeta Wyborcza website, it is hoped the action will bring closure to the proceedings which began back in the 1970’s.

Piotr Piatek, a spokesman for the IPN’s Krakow office, says the institution is not ruling out the idea that it may uncover new details regarding people who used to work at the death camp.

“We cannot exclude the possibility that someone who was on the books at the camp is still alive,” he says. “If this is in fact the c ...

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