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A National Remembrance Institute (IPN) source has told the Polish Press Agency (PAP) that the Institute has lodged a complaint with the Warsaw-City Center prosecutor calling for an investigation into whether or not it was a crime to use photographs of Auschwitz victims in an advertisement for a techno party.

August 12-13 marked the 61st anniversary of the deportation to the Auschwitz Nazi camp of the most numerous group of Warsaw residents as the uprising engulfed the Polish capital. Almost 6,000 people were deported on these two days.

Conservation work involved in the cleaning of several thousand children’s shoes found after the Red Army liberated Auschwitz Concentration Camp in January 1945 will go on through most of August.

The St. Maksymilian Center in Harmęże held ceremonies on August 14 to mark the 64th anniversary of the saint’s death in Auschwitz.

Roman Kwiatkowski, president of the Association of Roma in Poland, appealed for the remembrance of the victims of the Roma Holocaust during Tuesday’s Roma Extermination Day ceremonies at the Auschwitz-II Birkenau site, marking the 61st anniversary of the liquidation of the Gypsy Camp.

August 2 marks the 61st anniversary of the liquidation of the so-called Gypsy Family Camp in Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the Nazi death camp. On that day in 1944, the Nazis killed 2,897 men, women, and children in the gas chambers. August 2 has been observed since 1997 as Roma Extermination Remembrance Day.