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Each year, the Museum Digital Repository adds new records and documents to its holdings. At present, they consist of about 650 thousand personal records based on 70 document sets from the time when the camp was in operation. The names of many persons are repeated because they are entered differently in particular archival sets. Thus, in November 2009, the Museum Digital Repository contained 237 thousand discrete records with first and last names and birth dates. In other cases, the names or birth dates are missing, or the records are simply illegible.

Kadra dowódcza SZP-ZWZ-AK w Konzentrationslager Auschwitz 1940-1945 [Command cadre of the SZP-ZWZ-AK in Auschwitz Concentration Camp, 1940-1945], by Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum historian Dr. Jerzy Dębski, has been published jointly by the Institute of National Remembrance in Katowice and the Museum. It is available in the online bookshop at the Museum website.

Participants in the Plenary Assembly of the European Conferences of Major Superiors, associated in the Union of the European Conferences of Major Superiors, visited the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum on February 9, 2010.

The newest publication from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is a Polish version of Błogosławiona bądź wyobraźnio - przeklęta bądź. Wspomnienia 'Stamtąd' (Imagination: Blessed Be, Cursed Be: Reminscences from There) by former Auschwitz prisoner Batsheva Dagan, who was born in Łódź. In the introduction to this collection of poems, Batsheva Dagan writes that surviving Auschwitz is hard to describe in prose. She wanted to convey her experiences to her readers, and felt that this would be easier through poetry. She wrote the poems after the Holocaust, at moments when the memories overwhelmed her....

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum has published Bajki z Auschwitz [Fairy tales from Auschwitz]. This is a collection of six tales that originated in the Nazi German Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.

On January 27, the 65th anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz camp, in block 14 at the site of the former Auschwitz I camp representatives of Russian Federation with the ministry of education Andrej Fursenko together with the management of the Auschwitz Memorial opened a temporary exhibition dedicated to the liberation of the German Nazi Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. The exhibition was prepared by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.