News

About 8 thousand people joined in the 15th March of the Living. There were several hundred Poles among them. In remembrance of the Nazi victims murdered in Auschwitz, they marched from the gate bearing the inscription Arbeit macht frei at Auschwitz I to the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site.

Thanks to Polish civilians and escapees from the camp, the world learned the truth about the Nazi German Auschwitz Concentration Camp while the war was still on.

Bielsko Biała, April 11 (PAP-Polish Press Agency). About 70 volunteers are taking part in an Oral History project under the auspices of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The goal is to collect the greatest possible number of accounts by former Auschwitz prisoners, MCEAH information section head Jacek Lech told a press conference on Tuesday.

The Polish government has appropriated 7.72 million zloty, double last year’s figure, for the Oświęcim program, which supports investment in this place that is special for both Poland and the world. The official documents were signed yesterday in the office of the voivode (provincial governor).

Who Built the Auschwitz German Concentration Camp? A Controversial Statement by an Official of the World Jewish Congress.

April 6, Bielsko-Biała (PAP – Polish Press Agency) – Members of the board of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust (ICEAH) at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, appointed last October, convened for the first time on April 5-6.