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The commemoration of the first transport was overshadowed by the papal visit.

Charges against Dariusz Ratajczak were filed in the Regional Court in Opole.

Jonathan Webber, a professor at Oxford and member of the International Auschwitz Council, has been awarded the Gold Cross of Merit.

Former Auschwitz concentration camp prisoner Dina Gottliebova visited the Museum in the company of her daughter, her lawyer, and an NBC television crew. She is demanding the return of watercolors of Gypsies that she painted on orders from Dr. Mengele.

The Polish President signed a law on the protection of Nazi concentration camp sites, which also regulates the buffer zone around the Museum.

"Polish Concentration Camps." The November 1998 issue of The Australian carried an article titled "Blessed Be Their Names," containing the following passage: "The beatification in 1971 of Maximilian Kolbe, who died in a Polish concentration camp in 1941, attracted controversy because of allegations that he had been guilty of anti-Semitism as a journalist before the war..." After a series of protests from the Central Council of Polish Organizations in Australia, the Australian Press Board ruled on May 14, 1999 (in favor of the Central Council) that the expression "Polish death camps" could mislead Australian readers, is offensive to Poles, and therefore violates the principles of Australian journalism.