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New English language edition of "Oś" Monthly Magazine
03-11-2010
When one looks at the table full of medical instruments (shown on cover), which were most likely used at Auschwitz, it is hard to control one’s emotions and imagination. Many questions arise immediately. How easy it is to change manmade implements to save lives into tools that inflict pain and dehumanize. That happens when a person is treated as an object to which everything can be done. That is how doctors performed experiments in Auschwitz. On the following pages, you will read about this extraordinary find.
New English language edition of "Oś" Monthly Magazine
17-10-2010
The number of visitors to the Auschwitz Memorial in the last decade has increased threefold. Last year saw another record—1.3 million people, mainly from abroad, visited the Museum. In the near future, the adjacent bus depot will be transformed into a new visitors center. In the competition to develop this plan, KKM Kozień Architekci was awarded first prize. Here you can see what the modern reception base will look like.
Digital Memorial Monument - Names of Deportees to Auschwitz from the Lublin Area
11-10-2010
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum has posted on its website the names of Poles from Lublin deported by the Nazis to the Nazi German Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. The database is more than a valuable source of historical information; it is also a monument to the memory of people whose lives were tragically scarred by Auschwitz.
You cannot learn this anywhere else in the world
05-10-2010
Twenty-five U.S. soldiers undergoing training at the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth took part in the Raphael Lemkin Seminar, which took place from September 19 to 28. Its purpose was to analyze the issues of preventing genocide in the context of the history of Auschwitz. The seminar was co-organized by the International Centre for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust....
