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Danuta Czech died on April 4, 2002 at the age of 82. She was the author of numerous scholarly studies of the history of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp, including the fundamental study The Auschwitz Chronicle. She served for many years as a member of the staff of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim.

Several thousand young Jews from all over the world were joined by Poles last Monday in the 13th March of the Living, which pays homage to and expresses remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust. They walked the Death Road from the Auschwitz Concentration Camp site to the Birkenau Concentration Camp site.

On April 19, 2004 for the thirteenth time, the March of the Living will be held on the grounds of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

The permanent exhibition titled The Citizen Betrayed – The Memory of Holocaust Victims from Hungary opens in Block no. 18 at the Auschwitz I-Main Camp on April 15, 2004. Magyar Balint, Hungarian education minister and Ryszard Mikliński, subsecretary of state of the Polish culture ministry, will attend the ceremonies, which begin at 3:00 PM.

Małopolska Deputy Governor Jadwiga Nowakowska and Polish Ministry of Culture Undersecretary of State Ryszard Mikliński attended the official transfer to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum of the Gravel Pit grounds including the “Old Theater” building.

True Data Technology, headquartered in Carlsbad, CA, has presented the Museum with a cutting-edge internet server to upgrade its website. The site, available in Polish, English, and German, has attracted 750,000 hits from around the world, and traffic continues to grow.