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July 12, Vilnius (PAP) – The World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) decided on Wednesday to support a Polish proposal to change the name under which Auschwitz is inscribed on the organization's World Heritage List. Now inscribed as "Auschwitz Concentration Camp," the site will be renamed "Former Nazi German Concentration and Death Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.".

In early July, former Auschwitz prisoner Denise Karagiorga made a pilgrimage in the footsteps of her brother, Johann, who was deported to Auschwitz by the Nazis and died at the age of 16 in 1945.

The Museum played host for a day to students from the Holocaust Teaching Summer School, held in Cracow from July 3-7 and designed to provide interested teachers with additional knowledge of the subject.

Israeli teachers and guides from the Yad Vashem Memorial Institute in Jerusalem attended the inauguration of a seminar titled Auschwitz in the Collective Consciousness of Poland and the World: The Role and Significance of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial for Jews and Poles.

The Museum's Collections Department has added several valuable historical exhibits over the last few days. They were discovered in the course of preservation work at the ruins of gas chambers and crematoria II and III at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site.

June 21, Warsaw (PAP-Polish Press Agency)-Ten people were awarded Righteous among the Nations of the World medals on Wednesday. The medals are given to individuals and families who risked their own lives to rescue Jews during World War II. Polish President Lech Kaczyński attended the ceremony and said that the recipients had demonstrated "supreme valor.".