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MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU FORMER GERMAN NAZI CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP
Prof. Waclaw Dlugoborski attended a conference on the issue of forced labor in the Third Reich and reparations for the victims, organized at the Buchenwald Museum and Memorial near Weimar by the German government expert on these reparations, Prof. Lutz of the Schiller University in Jena. Prof. Długoborski chaired the Section I session on the definition and types of forced labor.
Former Knesset speaker Shevach Weiss had a meeting with Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum staff members and expressed interest in the changes that have taken place at the Museum since 1995.
An exhibition opened in Neustadt-Glewe of works by former Auschwitz prisoner Halina Olomucka, in connection with the album of her selected works, Krzyk (The Scream), published by the Memorial and Museum. Halina Olomucka has previously shown her work in Asia, Europe, and North and South America.
Patrick Grisel set out for Auschwitz from Brittany by bicycle on June 14. At the end of his 2,200 km. journey, he officially presented the Museum with a work by the Bretagne artist Roland Wieder, titled Six Million (22 of 23 relatives of the artist never returned from Auschwitz concentration camp).
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