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“Memory, Awareness, and Education” were the keywords of a conference of education ministers organized by the Polish Ministry of National Education in Oświęcim on the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. More than 30 guests, including Polish education minister Katarzyna Hall, Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Andrey Fursenko, and Israel Minster of Education Gideon Sa’ar met at the Center for Dialogue and Prayer.

On January 27, 2010, 65 years passed since the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz Concentration and Extermination Camp.

“Never before in the history of the Auschwitz Memorial have we been so close to guaranteeing the rescue of all the extant remains of the largest concentration camp and extermination center. Never before has Memory been so close to responsibility”—one reads in the new report of the Auschwitz Memorial. The 70 color pages of the bilingual report contain information on the most important events of 2009.

Dr. Piotr M.A. Cywiński, director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, and Avner Shalev, director of the Yad Vashem Institute, signed a letter of intention in Jerusalem on January 24 covering work on a complete overhaul of the exhibition titled "The Martyrdom and Struggle of the Jews in Europe from 1933 to 1945", located in block 27 at the Auschwitz I site.

The original Arbeit macht frei inscription, stolen from above the main gate at the site of the Auschwitz Nazi German concentration camp and extermination center in Dcember 2009, returned today to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

Just three months after its founding, 25 thousand people from all over the world have joined the official Auschwitz Memorial page at Facebook.