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Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Director Piotr Cywiński recently paid a call on the State Higher Vocational School in Oświęcim and held talks with the school’s rector, Professor Lucjan Suchanek, and its chancellor, Adam Bilski. They discussed cooperation between the two neighboring institutions, both of which have great educational roles.

Aleksander Lasik’s Sztafety Ochronne w systemie niemieckich obozów koncentracyjnych. Rozwój organizacyjny, ewolucja zadań i struktur oraz socjologiczny obraz obozowych załóg SS [The Protective Squadrons in the German concentration camp system: The organizational development, evolution of tasks and structures, and sociological makeup of the SS concentration camp garrisons], over 500 pages long, is the newest title published by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Its author is a Polish historian and expert on the SS.

From February 27th to March 4th, the yearly memory trip organized by the Italian history institute “Istoreco” to Krakow and Auschwitz-Birkenau took place the ninth time with 430 participants.

More than 200 former prisoners of the Auschwitz German camp have now signed the Foundation Act of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust, which will be opened at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

A conference titled Medicine in Auschwitz took place at the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust on March 10. It was the first of several educational events for teachers scheduled this year.

Małopolska Voivode Maciej Klima presented orders granted by the President of the Polish Republic to people who extended help to concentration camp prisoners. These people of good will were honored with the Officer’s Cross and Knight’s Cross of the Order of Poland Reborn.