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Jakob Silberstein traveled to the Museum several days ago. Born in Rypin in central Poland on November 15, 1924, he is a watchmaker and goldsmith by trade. During the war, the Nazis sent him to Nosarzewo (near Mława, Poland), where he performed compulsory labor on the construction of an airstrip.

The artistic collections of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum have added a painting by the contemporary Polish artist Maria Kantor-Lizuniec, a graduate of the Fine Arts Academy in Cracow who specializes in artistic weaving and easel painting. She has exhibited in Poland, Germany, Austria, France, Scandinavia, the USA, Canada, and many other countries.

“In writing my memoirs and reflections on the events that took place in the camp, I have presented what I experienced and saw,” said Andrzej Łępkowski, former Auschwitz prisoner number 95845, about the newest Publication by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum.

Feb 26, Bielsko-Biała (PAP-Polish Press Agency) – On Sunday, February 26, officials from the Association of Roma in Poland commemorated the 63rd anniversary of the first deportation of Gypsies to Auschwitz and the creation of the so-called Zigeunerfamilienlager (Roma family camp) in Auschwitz II-Birkenau. They lighted candles and placed flowers at the monument at the site of the Birkenau Gypsy camp, and at the ruins of gas chamber no. V.

Feb. 15, Bielsko-Biała (PAP—Polish Press Agency) – Preservation specialists found several objects belonging to prisoners while carrying out renovation work at the site of Auschwitz, the German camp. They include a pair of earmuffs worn by prisoners during the winter, Museum collections department head Igor Bartosik said on Wednesday.

Feb. 13, Bielsko-Biała (PAP—Polish Press Agency) – February 15 is the 64th anniversary of the first deportation of Polish Jews to Auschwitz. A transport of Jews arrested by the Gestapo in Bytom arrived that day in 1942. They were all liquidated immediately after arriving.