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The newest publication from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is a Polish version of Błogosławiona bądź wyobraźnio - przeklęta bądź. Wspomnienia 'Stamtąd' (Imagination: Blessed Be, Cursed Be: Reminscences from There) by former Auschwitz prisoner Batsheva Dagan, who was born in Łódź. In the introduction to this collection of poems, Batsheva Dagan writes that surviving Auschwitz is hard to describe in prose. She wanted to convey her experiences to her readers, and felt that this would be easier through poetry. She wrote the poems after the Holocaust, at moments when the memories overwhelmed her....

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum has published Bajki z Auschwitz [Fairy tales from Auschwitz]. This is a collection of six tales that originated in the Nazi German Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.

On January 27, the 65th anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz camp, in block 14 at the site of the former Auschwitz I camp representatives of Russian Federation with the ministry of education Andrej Fursenko together with the management of the Auschwitz Memorial opened a temporary exhibition dedicated to the liberation of the German Nazi Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. The exhibition was prepared by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.

“Memory, Awareness, and Education” were the keywords of a conference of education ministers organized by the Polish Ministry of National Education in Oświęcim on the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. More than 30 guests, including Polish education minister Katarzyna Hall, Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Andrey Fursenko, and Israel Minster of Education Gideon Sa’ar met at the Center for Dialogue and Prayer.

On January 27, 2010, 65 years passed since the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz Concentration and Extermination Camp.

“Never before in the history of the Auschwitz Memorial have we been so close to guaranteeing the rescue of all the extant remains of the largest concentration camp and extermination center. Never before has Memory been so close to responsibility”—one reads in the new report of the Auschwitz Memorial. The 70 color pages of the bilingual report contain information on the most important events of 2009.