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Personal mementos, documents, and works of art connected with the history of the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz donated to the Museum by former prisoners and their relatives can be seen at the Let's Build Remembrance exhibition in block 12 at the former Auschwitz I camp. All the donations were made to to the Memorial in the course of the last three years

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum has published The Auschwitz Poems: An Anthology in English. This is a large volume of 400 poems by 250 poets from around the world. Some were Auschwitz prisoners like Primo Levi, Halina Birenbaum, Charlotte Delbo, Friedrich Löwy and Tadeusz Borowskiego, and others are modern poets including the Nobel-Prize winners Elie Wiesel, Salvatore Quasimodo, Roald Hoffmann, Wisława Szymborska, and Czesław Miłosz.

Polish President Bronisław Komorowski decorated Oświęcim area residents who aided inmates of the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz during the war. Seventeen of the thirty-two honorees attended the ceremony held at Belweder Palace in Warsaw on February 1 in connection with the sixty-sixth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

A delegation of almost 200 personalities and government officials from forty countries has visited the grounds of the former German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz. The guests included former Senegalese President Abdulaye Wade, UN Deputy Secretary General Asha-Rose Migiro, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, and special delegates and ambassadors from Egypt, the United States, France, Iraq, Morocco, and Turkey.

We are pleased to announce the opening of the First International Summer Academy organized by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, as part of educational programs organized at the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust.

January 27, 2011 marks the passage of 66 years since the liberation of the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz. During the anniversary observances Professor Władysław Bartoszewski, former prisoner and initiator of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, addressed a special Appeal to the entire world for help in maintaining the authentic original remains of the former camp.