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Auschwitz Museum received two cars as a gift from Volkswagen AG and the International Auschwitz Committee.

In September 2015, the board of the Memorial Society in Moscow decided to accept as a member of the organization Dr. Piotr M.A. Cywiński, director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

The main phase of the project for comprehensive conservation of two brick prisoner barracks, which are in a very bad state has commenced on the site of the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp.

The Polish Prime Minister Ms. Ewa Kopacz visited the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum on August 17. She laid a wreath at the Death Wall in the courtyard of block 11, paying homage to victims of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp.

Over a million people visited the Auschwitz Memorial in the first seven months of the year 2015. Never before in the history of the Museum has the attendance been so high within this period.

In Poland, 2nd of August is celebrated as the Roma and Sinti Holocaust Remembrance Day. 71 years ago, in the night from 2 to 3 August 1944 the Germans eliminated in the Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the so-called family camp for Gypsies (Zigeunerfamilienlager). Nearly 3000 children, women and men, the last of the Roma prisoners were murdered in gas chambers. Several hundred people attended the ceremony, which took place at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau. At the monument commemorating the extermination of the Roma and Sinti on the premises of the former Zigeunerfamilienlager in Birkenau, wreaths were laid and tribute paid to the victims.