The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum (Polish: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau w Oświęcimiu) is a memorial and museum in Oświęcim (German: Auschwitz), Poland, which includes the German concentration camps Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau. It is devoted to the memory of the murders in both camps during World War II. The museum performs several tasks, among them research into the Holocaust.