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The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust organized an educational session entitled “Fairy Tales from Auschwitz”. A simple title, but extraordinary history. Prisoners of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp secretly created these fairy tales for their own children. They also made beautiful illustrations for them. There were almost 30 who risked creating them in the shadows of the crematoria chimneys. They started this work when one of them found in the near-by “Canada” warehouses a colorful book of stories that belonged to children who had been murdered in the gas chambers. That is when they decided to write and illustrate fairy tales for their own children.

On 20 March 2010, the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim organized an educational session entitled “Soviet Prisoners of War in Auschwitz”. During the session lectures were presented by: Professor Wacław Długoborski, who spoke about the rights of and crimes against prisoners of war in the Third Reich, as well as by Dr. Jacek Lachendro about the fate of Soviet POWs in Auschwitz. Session participants also visited the Russian exhibition devoted to the liberation of the camp. The exhibition was prepared by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow. The ceremonial opening took place on 27 January 2010.

The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust has published a folder presenting the work of six Oświęcim based institutions that deal in education connected with the Auschwitz Memorial Site. “You can learn about Auschwitz and the Holocaust anywhere. However, it is in Oświęcim that you can learn not only the history of the camp’s function, acquaint oneself with memoirs of witnesses, but also personally see the original, material proof — from the ruins of the crematoria and gas chambers to a single children’s shoe. Learning at the authentic, emotionally charged place makes it easier in understanding the tragedy and uniqueness of the Holocaust as well as the extreme conditions of camp life” — we read in the introduction to the folder “Auschwitz: Remembrance and Education”.

An exhibition by the French photographer, Emmanuel Berry, titled "Image Versus Knowledge" has opened in the temporary exhibition room in block 12 at the Auschwitz I site. It consists of 42 black-and-white photographs depicting the immediate surroundings of the Auschwitz complex: streams, woods, villages, individual houses, fields, and the urban periphery.

There have been 111 declarations of intent to enter the competition for the architectonic and urban planning design of the new visitor service centure at the Auschwitz Memorial . It will be built at the site of the PKSiS bus garage adjacent to the Museum.

Yad Vashem in Jerusalem will prepare an entirely new exhibition devoted to the destruction of the Jews, to be installed in block 27 at the Auschwitz I site. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Director Dr. Piotr M.A. Cywiński and Yad Vashem Director Avner Shalev signed an agreement in Oświęcim to replace the existing exhibition, titled “The Martyrdom and Struggle of the Jews in Europe in the Years 1933-1945.”