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Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum curators face unique preservation challenges
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May 4, 2015
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Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum curators face unique preservation challenges
Anna Lopuska, lead conservator for the museum, shares those challenges with Take Two.
OSWIECIM, POLAND - JANUARY 27: An original sign in German reads: "Warning! High Voltage Danger" at a barbed wire fence at the former Auschwitz I concentration camp on January 27, 2015 in Oswiecim, Poland. International heads of state, dignitaries and over 300 Auschwitz survivors are attending the commemorations for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops on 27th January, 1945. Auschwitz was among the most notorious of the concentration camps run by the Nazis during WWII and whilst it is impossible to put an exact figure on the death toll it is alleged that over a million people lost their lives in the camp, the majority of whom were Jewish. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
OSWIECIM, POLAND - JANUARY 27: An original sign in German reads: "Warning! High Voltage Danger" at a barbed wire fence at the former Auschwitz I concentration camp on January 27, 2015 in Oswiecim, Poland. International heads of state, dignitaries and over 300 Auschwitz survivors are attending the commemorations for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops on 27th January, 1945. Auschwitz was among the most notorious of the concentration camps run by the Nazis during WWII and whilst it is impossible to put an exact figure on the death toll it is alleged that over a million people lost their lives in the camp, the majority of whom were Jewish. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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Anna Lopuska, lead conservator for the museum, shares those challenges with Take Two.

Preserving the authenticity of any historic site is a big task, but curators at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in Poland face unique challenges. 

Anna Lopuska, lead conservator for the project, talks about what remains of the museum's buildings and the former camps at Auschwitz 1 and Auschwitz 2 Birkenau.