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The Museum Archives have received three original documents from the camp hospital. They are the surgery record book from block 21 for the period from October 1, 1941 to September 4, 1942, containing the names of over 6,300 prisoners, and the two last record books from the x-ray lab in block 28 for the periods from April 8, 1944 to January 15, 1945.

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.