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The year-long course in museum studies at the Jagiellonian University Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology Institute has ended. As has been the case over the several years that the course has been taught, Auschwitz-Museum Birkenau staff members attended. This time, there were eight of them.

The 60th anniversary of the liquidation of the so called family camp in Auschwitz Concentration Camp for Jews deported from the ghetto in Terezin (Theresienstadt, now in the Czech Republic) is being commemorated.

In July, the Auschwitz Museum Education Center began its now-traditional two-week seminar on “Auschwitz in the Collective Awareness in Poland and Abroad.” Participants include staff from Holocaust remembrance institutions in Israel: Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the Ghetto Fighters Museum from the kibbutz of the same name, and Massuah (The Lighthouse) from Tel Itzhak kibbutz.

Museum Chief Preservation Officer Witold Smrek announced plans for the imminent start of work to secure the ruins of gas chambers and crematoria II and III at the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration Camp.

Archaeologists discovered candlesticks and chandeliers, probably bronze, on Monday at the site of the Great Synagogue of Oświęcim, which was demolished in 1939. The items, buried 65 years ago, were part of the furnishings of the synagogue.

Ceremonies in Oświęcim mark the 64th anniversary of the deportation to Auschwitz of the first transport of Polish political prisoners.