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May 7 Oświęcim (PAP – Polish Press Agency) – Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt was at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on Sunday for the opening of an updated permanent exhibition dedicated to the fate of Belgian citizens, mostly Jews, who were deported to the camp. He was accompanied by Kazimierz Ujazdowski, the Polish Minister of Culture. The guests paid homage to the victims of Auschwitz and placed a wreath at the Death Wall in the courtyard of Block no. 11, known as the "Death Block.".

An exhibition prepared by the Children of the Shoah Association, the Cultural Affairs Office at the Jewish Community in Milan, and the Foundation for Jewish Documentation in Milan will be open from April 25 to June 10, 2006 in the main hall of the Visitors Reception building at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

Did the mayor of the city of Oświęcim accept a financial donation from representatives of a dangerous Japanese sect for the construction of a Remembrance and Reconciliation Mound? The Polish Foreign Affairs Ministry has counseled extreme caution in contacts with the Agon Shu Buddhist Association.

About 8 thousand people joined in the 15th March of the Living. There were several hundred Poles among them. In remembrance of the Nazi victims murdered in Auschwitz, they marched from the gate bearing the inscription Arbeit macht frei at Auschwitz I to the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site.

Thanks to Polish civilians and escapees from the camp, the world learned the truth about the Nazi German Auschwitz Concentration Camp while the war was still on.

Bielsko Biała, April 11 (PAP-Polish Press Agency). About 70 volunteers are taking part in an Oral History project under the auspices of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The goal is to collect the greatest possible number of accounts by former Auschwitz prisoners, MCEAH information section head Jacek Lech told a press conference on Tuesday.