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There are five drawings, in charcoal, on the wall of a building in Goleszow that housed an Auschwitz sub-camp during the Second World War.

The regional court in Opole dismissed the case against Dr. Dariusz Ratajczak of Opole University, who was accused of "the Auschwitz Lie," for denying in his book "Dangerous Subjects" that genocide was committed in Auschwitz and Majdanek.

A field seminar for humanities teachers at the Yad Vashem Memorial Institute in Jerusalem was devoted to the history of the Jews and the tragedy of the Holocaust.

An international conference was held in Nuremberg on the subject, "How to Convey the History of the Third Reich in the Twenty-first Century."

The Malopolska provincial parliament expressed its support of steps taken by the museum to preserve the integrity of its holdings by not returning to Dina Gottliebova the watercolors that she painted in Auschwitz on the orders of Dr. Mengele.

The second post-graduate course in "Totalitarianism-Nazism-the Holocaust," for teachers, was inaugurated (see also Museum, Education Center).