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The Holocaust Museum in Washington has given Auschwitz Museum historians access to the 115 photographs in an album belonging to Auschwitz SS man Karl Hoecker. Adjutant to the third Auschwitz commandant, Richard Baer, Hoecker took the pictures in the second half of 1944. An anonymous benefactor recently donated the photographs to the American museum.

The Museum had a visit from the Red Cross International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany. The delegation included Director Reto Meister, Archive Director Udo Jost, and Beat Schweizer, the deputy director of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva. After touring the site of the Auschwitz camp, the guests met Museum Director Piotr M.A. Cywiński and Museum Archive Director Piotr Setkiewicz.

A young German conscientious objector performing alternative service at the Auschwitz Museum is the protagonist of a film that opens in movie theatres across Germany today.

The Auschwitz Preservation Society has published a revised version of a guidebook following the route of one of the “Death Marches” along which Auschwitz prisoners were marched from the camp to the town of Wodzisław Sląski in January 1945.

At 5:00 p.m. on August 1, precisely 63 years after the start of the Warsaw Uprising, Museum Director Piotr M.A. Cywiński and accompanying persons placed wreaths at the Death Wall in commemoration of this tragic event.

Over 700 thousand people visited the site of the Nazi German Auschwitz Concentration Camp in the first 7 months of 2007—over 200 thousand more than in the corresponding period last year. This means that, if visitors keep arriving at the present level, the annual; total will exceed 1.2 million. Admission to the Museum is free.