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On 20 June, the 18th Session of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation Council took place at the Warsaw headquarters of Deloitte Poland, a long-time corporate donor to the Foundation. The mission of the Foundation is to safeguard the preservation of the genuine remains of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau and to support the educational activities of the Memorial.

14 June 1940 is considered the beginning of the functioning of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. On that day, the Germans deported a group of 728 Poles from the Tarnów prison to Auschwitz. The group included soldiers who had fought against the German invasion in September 1939, members of underground independence organisations, secondary school and university students, and a small number of Polish Jews. They were given numbers from 31 to 758.

Adapting visits to the Auschwitz Memorial Site to people with hearing disabilities, and removing the barriers associated with organising a visit to the Museum, are the main objectives of the "Auschwitz - accessible memory" project.

The 37th session of the International Auschwitz Council took place on June 12 and 13 in Gdansk and Stutthof. The activities of the Auschwitz Memorial and the work of the Stutthof Museum and its branch, the Piasnica Museum in Wejherowo, were the main topics discussed during the two-day meeting. This was the first time in the history of the IAC that a meeting was held in Gdansk and Stutthof. The session was chaired by Grzegorz Berendt, PhD.

An exceptional collection of photographs depicting the deportation of the first Poles to the newly established German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, which took place 78 years ago on June 14, 1940, has been discovered and published. Digital reproductions of these significant documents were given to the Museum by a Tarnów collector Marek Tomaszewski, the author of the publication "Tarnów – KL Auschwitz: The First Transport to Hell."

An interactive multibook summarising the visit to the Auschwitz Memorial is a proposal by the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust for young people who visited the Memorial. It is available in two languages: Polish and English.