The International Auschwitz Committee was formed by survivors of the Auschwitz death camp

Auschwitz concentration camp

Concentration camp Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II...

 in 1952 for the support of the survivors and to fight racism

Racism

Racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination. In the modern English language, the term "racism" is used predominantly as a pejorative epithet. It is applied especially to the practice or advocacy of racial discrimination of a pernicious nature...

 and anti-Semitism. The Committee's mission was to maintain contact with survivors on both sides of the Iron Curtain

Iron Curtain

The concept of the Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological fighting and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1989...

 and serve as an outreach program to young adults in the community.

• Former chairman and honorary chairman was Kurt Goldstein
  Kurt Julius Goldstein
  Kurt Julius Goldstein was a German journalist and a former broadcast director.- Biography :Goldstein was born to a Jewish merchant family in Dortmund, Germany. At school, he experienced Germany's growing anti-Semitism and it had the effect of politicising him...
  
   (1914-2007).
• Tadeusz Hołuj (1916-1985), former secretary general

Its secretary is now based in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

 (German: Koordinationsbüro des IAK).

Further reading

Kurt Julius Goldstein

Kurt Julius Goldstein

Kurt Julius Goldstein was a German journalist and a former broadcast director.- Biography :Goldstein was born to a Jewish merchant family in Dortmund, Germany. At school, he experienced Germany's growing anti-Semitism and it had the effect of politicising him...

, Wir sind die letzten, fragt uns. (We're the Last, Ask Us) Collected writings. (1999)

External links

• International Auschwitz Committee
• The Coordinating Office of the IAC
• The Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation (20 January 2009)