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About 6 thousand young Jews from 55 countries around the world and about a thousand Poles joined in the March of the Living, in tribute to and commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust, on Tuesday. As is the tradition, the March of the Living started at the gate of the Auschwitz I site, with its inscription Arbeit macht frei (“work will set you free”).

Representatives from the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam visited the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau on April 20-22, 2009. The delegation visited the Museum in order to establish closer cooperation with the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust.

April 25th, 2009, the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau organized an educational seminar on the camp orchestras in Auschwitz.

April 4th, 2009, the next , “Resettlement — Totalitarianism — The Holocaust”, organized by the Pedagogical University of Cracow and International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust began.

In the March issue of Oś [Axis], we recommend two texts connected with art. The first of them, by the director of the State Museum in Oświęcim, Dr. Piotr M.A. Cywiński, presents the concept of the exhibition of camp art planned for the kitchen building at the site of the Auschwitz I camp.

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Director Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Director Sara Bloomfield signed an agreement in Washington for the loan of about a thousand objects from the collections of the Auschwitz Memorial, which will go on display as part of the USHMM main exhibition. Most of the items are utensils and other everyday objects that belonged to Jewish families sent to their death at Auschwitz, the largest Nazi German death camp.