American teacher Theodore Kempinski has been appointed the Honorary Consul of the Auschwitz Memorial in the United States. He will primarily support the activities undertaken by the Diplomacy of Remembrance of the Museum in the State of Massachusetts.

On 20 June at the Warsaw headquarters of KPMG, which has supported the Foundation’s activities from the start, the 19th session of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation Council took place.

On 1 October in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland in Warsaw, the 14th Session of the International Committee of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation took place, with representatives from countries supporting the Foundation's efforts to preserve the Auschwitz Memorial Site. Besides matters related to the conservation of the Memorial, an important topic of discussion was the upcoming 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Google will support the development of the "Auschwitz in Front of Your Eyes" project, enabling people from around the world to visit the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with a live guide in an online format. Through $1M in funding and support from Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, the Memorial will expand education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust to reach people everywhere, including making it accessible to people with disabilities, those in remote areas and unable to travel there.