The conference "Aktion Saybusch. Displacement of Residents of Żywiec Area by the German Occupier 1940-1941"took place at the National Archives in Katowice (104,Józefowska st.) on May 13th . The event was co-organized by the State Archive in Katowice and the Branch Office of the Institute of National Remembrance in Katowice.

Conference was accompanied by an exhibition of the same title, prepared by the Public Education Office of the Institute of National Remembrance in Katowice.
The exhibition "Aktion Saybusch. Displacement of Residents of Żywiec Area by the German Occupier 1940-1941" was created in 2010, its script prepared by Dr. Miroslav Sikora, in cooperation with Monica Bortlik-Dźwierzyńska (IPN in Katowice).

The exhibition comprises 30 panels, which are accessible and show the story of one of the most tragic events in the history of Żywiec in visually appealing way.
The exhibition presents not only a step-by-step course of deportation itself, but also, among other things, the process of annexation of territories of Żywiec into the Reich (Großdeutsches Reich), the organization's foundation and the Germanization of these territories by Nazi ideas, the nationalities and economic structure of the area, profiles of the authors and the executors of the deportation. Moreover the exhibition comprises an assessment of the impact of the action and the subsequent fate of the displaced residents of Żywiec. At the exhibition, one can see unique documents and photographs from the collection of the Branch Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation – IPN in Katowice, the Archives of Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw, the National Archives in Katowice and its local branch in Żywiec, the Archives of Modern Records, the Municipal Museum in Żywiec - Old Castle, the Federal Archives in Berlin-Lichterfelde, as well as the Federal Archives Division in Ludwigsburg.
Exhibition is presented until 15 July 2011.