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Museum staff members and former prisoners honored the 67th anniversary of the first deportation of 728 Polish political prisoners to the Auschwitz Nazi German concentration camp. They laid wreathes and lighted candles at the Death Wall outside Block no. 11, where the Germans shot at least several thousand people.

Museum staff placed floral tributes at the place where Polish prisoners in the so-called penal company attempted to escape while working on the grounds of the Birkenau camp on June 19, 1942.

39% of Poles feel that Jews are responsible for the death of Jesus. A majority state that “there is too much talk about the Holocaust.” The Anti-Defamation League, which carried out the survey, says this is proof that anti-Semitism is “deeply rooted in Polish society.”

The Holocaust denier David Irving was scheduled to make an appearance today at the 52nd Warsaw International Book Fair.

On April 27, Polish Teachers’ Day of Remembrance and Peace, about a thousand Polish teachers and students paid homage to the victims of the Auschwitz German camp. The date coincides with the anniversary of the martyr’s death in Auschwitz of the teacher Marian Batko, who gave his life for a 16-year-old fellow prisoner.

A roundabout with parking spaces for busses carrying tourists visiting the so-called Altejudenrampe will be built before the end of the year, PAP has been informed by Andrzej Bibrzycki, wojt of Oświęcim commune, the local government unit that includes the townships surrounding the city of Oświęcim. The Altejudenrampe is the railroad siding located between the German Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau camps, where trains carrying transports of arriving future camp victims stopped during the war.