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A temporary exhibition of drawings by former Auschwitz Concentration Camp prisoner Marian Kołodziej has opened in Block no. 12 at the site of the Auschwitz I Main Camp.

A new memorial tablet in the traditional language of this group of victims was unveiled on the sixtieth anniversary of the Nazi deportation of the first group of Greek Jews for extermination in Auschwitz. The Nazi Germans murdered tens of thousands of Sephardic Jewish men, women, and children in Auschwitz.

The Archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum contain approximately 3,000 accounts by former prisoners, as well as testimony from the trial of the camp garrison. To this day, the material has not been edited as "literature of fact." The accessible reportage form could fill the gap between memoir literature and scholarly studies.

A new memorial tablet will be unveiled at the monument to the victims of the camp at the Birkenau site at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, March 24, 2003, the anniversary of the first transport sent by the Nazis from Salonika to Auschwitz.

A unique album containing 189 pictures taken by Germans at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in the spring of 1944 has been published again (in English). It is called "The Auschwitz Album" or, using the name of the camp prisoner thanks to whom it was saved, "Lili Jacob's Album."

The annual training session for guides is underway at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświecim. According to Visitor Services Office head Antoni Stańczyk, the annual training session is intended to provide the guides with enhanced knowledge and improved methodology. The training includes lectures on the history and symbolism of Auschwitz, classes on technique, and practical exercises intended to improve the quality of guide services.