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The nationwide, Polish edition of the educational project, “Auschwitz — my land. History and remembrance years later” has come to an end.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation folder "The preservation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Our responsibility for future generations" has been recognized by the British D&AD (Design & Art Direction) organization as one of the best designed publications in the world.

An event in the concert hall at the Karol Szymanowski State Music School First Degree in Oświęcim featured a performance of Brundibar, an opera for children by Hans Krasa, a Czech composer of Jewish origins, with a libretto by Adolf Hoffmeister.

About six thousand young Jews from all over the world were joined by more than a thousand young Poles in the twentieth March of the Living, held on the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Day. At the sound of the shofar they set out from the Arbeit macht frei gate at the Auschwitz I site, as they do each year. They marched to the vicinity of the ruins of the gas chambers and crematoria at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site, where the main observances were held.

Siblings from Cincinnati, moved by an appeal from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, organized a fundraiser at their school that brought in $1,200. The money will be added to the Foundation's Perpetual Fund, the interest from which is designated for the conservation of the grounds of the former German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz.

The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust hosted a group of officers and cadets to Fort Leavenworth, participants of the Raphael Lemkin Seminar that is jointly organized with the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation.