Many gifts were also donated by the survivors' family members and other people who had received miscellaneous types of mementos from the prisoners as a token of gratitude for the help they had received. Each year, new gifts increase and enrich the Auschwitz Memorial’s collection. This exhibition displays some received in recent three years.

Each authentic item related to the Auschwitz camp is an individual history, a testimony of those tragic times. The Museum collects all items coming from the period when the camp was operational as well as art works created by the survivors after the liberation. It also provides proper conservation protection and storage conditions for all artifacts.

Grateful for the support we have received so far, we appeal to the general public for donating such artifacts to the Auschwitz Memorial. They will serve, among others, the educational purpose of teaching about the history of the Auschwitz camp and commemorating the people whose fate was connected with one of the most tragic places in history.

The exhibition can be seen in Block 12 at the former Auschwitz I camp until February 24, 2011.

Barbara Bogdańska’s prisoner dress. Barbara Bogdańska was a prisoner of the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück camps. (Donated by her daughter, Kinga Szaran)	Letters sent from Auschwitz by Barbara Bogdańska to her sister, Helena Wnuk.  (Donated by her daughter, Kinga Szaran)
Thank you cards, donated by Helena Datoń-Szpak, who got it from Auschwitz prisoners as a token of gratitude for the help provided during the camp years.	Musical stores with „Haftl. Kapelle/KL Au” (Prisoners’ orchestra / KL Auschwitz) stamps along with files for storing scores. (Donated by Dariusz Sienko)
Genowefa Marczyńska’s diary, written in 1945, after the liberation. It contains a description of her camp experiences and return to Krakow. (Donated by Maria Woźniakowska)	Animal figures cut from rubber, made in the camp by an unknown prisoner for Genowefa Marczyńska’s son Andrzej. (Donated by Maria Woźniakowska)
A plaque from a train used for deporting Jews from the Westerbork camp in occupied Holland to Auschwitz. (Donated by John Huiskes)	A porcelain bowl from a building where during the occupation the head of the Auschwitz camp farming department resided. (Donated by Leszek Serbeński)
Halina Brejniak’s drawings made in 1944 at the Pawiak prison in Warsaw and the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück camps. (Donated by Anna Kasprzyk)	Triptych by Isaak Celnikier, 1976 (Donated by the artist)
A scapular that belonged to Stefan Skubiński, prisoner of the Mysłowice prison and the Auschwitz camp. He died in the camp on September 25, 1941. After his death, his clothes and the scapular were sent to his wife. (Donated by his daughter, Jadwiga Lech-Skubińska)	A camp number stripe. (Donated by Maria Woźniakowska)
A signet ring made of horse hair by an Auschwitz prisoner, possibly Marcin Krzywicki for a female prisoner Maria Góra. (Donated by her grand-daughter Aleksandra Serafińska)	A male signet ring made in Auschwitz camp by an unknown prisoner for Tadeusz Orłowski. (Donated by his daughter, Ramona Boylan)
Józef Mańka’s portrait painted by an unknown prisoner. Józef Mańka helped prisoners by illegally providing them food and medicaments, and transferring illegal correspondence. (Donated by his daughter, Krystyna Goniwiecha)	Penal Unit at work, sketch made in 1950 by Władysław Siwek, an Auschwitz camp prisoner. (Donated by Izabela Kula)

Scenario: Teresa Zbrzeska
Design: Edyta Chwistek i Elżebieta Pietruczuk
On-line exhibition: Paweł Sawicki