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Once again, teachers interested in the Holocaust are taking part in an intensive five-day program on this difficult subject. The Second “Teaching the Holocaust” Summer School, from July 2-6, 2007, follows up on the success of last year’s course and reflects the undiminished interest in the theme.

On the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, we have gathered for an international conference on Remembrance, Awareness, and Responsibility.

Three exhibitions will form part of the ceremonies connected with the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Museum at the site of the Nazi German Auschwitz I camp

At a ceremony in the Preservation Workshops on Sunday, July 1, Director Piotr M. A. Cywiński, representing the Museum, and Premier Jürgen Rütgers, representing the German Federal Land of North Rhine-Westphalia, signed the contract for the conservation of Auschwitz SS-Hygiene Institute records from the Museum Archives.

An international conference, exhibitions, and a new book to mark the occasion will commemorate the 60th anniversary, in July, of the founding of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

Igor Bartosik, head of the Collections Department, said that the only original sculptures from the camp have been brought to the Museum. During the war, they stood at the entrance gate of the Auschwitz sub-camp in Jawiszowice, where prisoners worked as slave laborers in the coal mine.