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“Teaching about the Holocaust: Integration of Site Visits in the pedagogical work” – is the title of this years seminar for educators and teachers from countries belonging to the Council of Europe, signatories to the European Cultural Convention, which had its place in Kraków and Oświęcim on October 8-14, 2011.

From the 18th until the 23rd of September, a second seminar was held in Poland for Polish and Dutch educators taking part in the project “Holocaust Education in European Perspective”.

The silent march and prayer for peace on the grounds of the former German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau were part of the World Congress of Divine Mercy being held in Kraków-Łagiewniki.

The New Zealand Government through the Ministry for Culture and Heritage has announced it will donate €50,000 to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.

The government of Israel has joined in supporting the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation’s Perpetual Fund project. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that the support will amount to 3,600,000 new shekels, or about $1,000,000. The goal of the Foundation is to finance a long-term program for conserving the authentic Memorial. The overarching value inspiring the effort is maintaining the maximum authenticity and legibility of the post-camp space for future generations....

The five-volume monograph Auschwitz 1940-1945: Central Issues in the History of the Camp has come out in French. A translation of the Polish edition that appeared in 1995 with Wacław Długoborski and Franciszek Piper as editors, it has been updated to reflect the latest historical findings. At 2,167 pages, the new edition is the most extensive collection to date of scholarly studies describing the origins and functioning of the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz.