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Friday, January 27 marks the 61st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi Concentration Camp. The main theme for this year’s observances is women and children Auschwitz prisoners.

After examining the condition of the original Arbeit macht frei gate, Museum preservation experts decided that it requires conservation. They identified superficial, isolated instances of damage resulting from chips in the layer of protective paint.

January 23, Bielsko-Biała (PAP) Thanks to the efforts of the local government in Goleszów, in the Cieszyń Silesia region of Poland, a memorial chamber dedicated to the prisoners of the Auschwitz-Golleschau sub-camp will be opened, along with an educational trail. Preliminary work is underway. PAP has learned from staff members at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and the Goleszów local government that the opening is scheduled for May.

As is the case every year, this winter is a training period for over 170 Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum guides. Aimed at enhancing the guides’ qualifications, the program for this winter was developed by the staff of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust, which opened in 2005.

Thanks to help from the staff of the Office for Information on Former Prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, Auschwitz survivor Denise Karagiorga learned of her brother’s tragic fate 60 years after the fact.

Wiek ludobójstwa (The Age of Genocide), by the French expert Bernard Brunetau, is being made available to Polish readers for the first time. The book presents a wide range of views by philosophers, historians, and sociologists on the causes of genocide in the 20th century, which Brunetau terms, with considerable justification, “the age of genocide.”.