News

During the next session of the International Auschwitz Council will be held in Warsaw on November 3-4, 2003, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum administration will present preliminary plans for the “international Center for Teaching Auschwitz and the Holocaust,” which will be created within the Museum as a further development of the educational activity of the various Museum departments, including the Education Center.

This year’s postgraduate course on Totalitarianism, Nazism, and the Holocaust opened at the Museum on October 17, 2003.

The Jewish Center is organizing the following events in the 2003/2004 school year.

Three IAF F-15s flew over the heads of more than 100 Israel soldiers who were paying tribute to the victims of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi camp yesterday.

35 Poles, mostly teachers, clergy, and memorial site staff, are leaving on Monday for two weeks of training in Israel on the history of the Jews with special emphasis on the Holocaust.

We wrote recently about the Grand Circle Foundation. Its chairman, Allan Lewis, visited the Museum on June 21 and signed a letter of intent for $1,250,000 in aid to the Museum, earmarked for adapting the "Old Theater" building for use by the Education Center. The funds will be transferred over a period of five years following the formal handover of the building to the Museum.