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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.

A new, expanded (Polish) edition of the oft-reprinted collection of stories about children in Auschwitz concentration camp. It includes stories never published before. One of them, titled “The Jew“, was blocked by the censor in 1968.

An article in the monthly Focus Historia is devoted to the execution of camp commandant Rudolf Hoess at the Auschwitz site in April 1947, and the photographs taken at the time.

About 7 thousand young people—Jews from all over the world and Poles—joined the 16th March of the Living in Oświęcim on Monday. First held more than a decade ago, the March represents homage and an expression of remembrance towards the victims of the Shoah.