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The Director of the Auschwitz Museum, dr Piotr M.A. Cywiński , was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Greek Order of the Phoenix by the President of Greece, Karolos Papoluias. The Greek President, Karolos Papoulias, visited the Memorial Site and the Auschwitz Museum in July last year. It was a part of his official visit to Poland.

On the 67th anniversary of establishing The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, the ‘If Not for Those Ten...’ awards were handed out. This honourable mention by the Director of the Museum was awarded to volunteers and representatives of the institutions supporting the voluntary work in the Memorial.

The Volkswagen AG company together with the International Auschwitz Committee donated a bus to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. It will become a free-of-charge shuttle bus for transporting visitors between the two parts of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz, which are located over 2 kilometres apart from each other.

Personal items from the German Nazi Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp as well as original camp letters from the former prisoner Kazimiera Gruszczyńska were donated to the Museum Archives and Collection. The items were donated by her daughter - Lucyna Gruszczyńska-Jeleńska.

In Terezin the seminar dedicated to the history of the extermination of the Jews prepared by Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Site, Institute of National Remembrance and Terezin Memorial Site is now completed.

At the end of June and the beginning of July, participants from, among others, Sweden, Norway, Romania, United States, South Korea and United Kingdom took part in the fourth International Summer Academy, an English-language seminar organised by the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust.