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The twentieth meeting of the International Auschwitz Council was held in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland. Professor Władysław Bartoszewski chaired the meeting. The main subjects of discussion were issues connected with the financing of memorials located on the former grounds of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers in occupied Poland....

Over 100 people participated in a meeting with the Israeli writer Batsheva Dagan. The meeting was organized by the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the end of November.

Auschwitz-Birkenau: the Past and the Present is a richly illustrated folder more than 20 pages long in no fewer than eighteen languages including Hebrew, Arabic, and Korean. It is available free of charge from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum website.

When one looks at the table full of medical instruments (shown on cover), which were most likely used at Auschwitz, it is hard to control one’s emotions and imagination. Many questions arise immediately. How easy it is to change manmade implements to save lives into tools that inflict pain and dehumanize. That happens when a person is treated as an object to which everything can be done. That is how doctors performed experiments in Auschwitz. On the following pages, you will read about this extraordinary find.

The Program Board of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust has met at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

The number of visitors to the Auschwitz Memorial in the last decade has increased threefold. Last year saw another record—1.3 million people, mainly from abroad, visited the Museum. In the near future, the adjacent bus depot will be transformed into a new visitors center. In the competition to develop this plan, KKM Kozień Architekci was awarded first prize. Here you can see what the modern reception base will look like.