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On September 2, 2004, Polish president Aleksander Kwaśniewski met at the Presidential Palace with Abraham Hirchson, chairman of the Israeli “March of the Living” project.

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Sept. 23, Bielsko-Biała (PAP) – The Council for the Protection of the Memory of Fighting and Martyrdom is to organize the observances of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the German Auschwitz camp on January 27, 2005, Council General Secretary Andrzej Przewoźnik informed PAP.

A temporary exhibition on the Jehovah’s Witnesses who were victims of Nazi persecution from 1933 to 1945 opened in the Visitor Reception Building at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim on September 21, 2004.

The Auschwitz Preservation Society has commemorated British POWs who perished during American air raids on the IG Farben factory where they performed slave labor for the German company. The memorial plaque hangs on the wall of the parish cemetery in Oświęcim.

The Fraternal General Chapter and International Formation Directors Meeting of the Friars Minor Conventual, the Franciscan order, ended its two-week session with mass in front of Block no. 11 at the site of the Nazi Auschwitz camp. The Minister General, Friar Joachim Giermek, a Polish American, said mass for nearly 200 friars from 39 countries. Giermek is the first of the 118 Ministers General of the Franciscans over the course of their 800-year history to have Polish roots.