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In May 2002, Fritjof Meyer, a journalist with the influential German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, published an article titled “Die Zahl der Opfer von Auschwitz. Neue Erkentnisse durch neue Archivfunde” (The Number of Victims of Auschwitz: New Findings in the Light of Newly-Discovered Documents) in the German scholarly journal Osteuropa. Meyer does not deny the existence of the gas chambers, but he lowers the number of people murdered in Auschwitz to approximately 510,000.

The first Polish supplementary history textbook devoted to the extermination of the Jews during the Second World War has been published. It is intended for students in intermediate and secondary schools.

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.