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The Canadian television network CTV has admitted broadcasting inaccurate and misleading information by using the terms “Polish ghetto” and “Polish camp at Treblinka.”

The Tarnów branch of the Auschwitz Preservation Society is preparing a rich commemorative program to mark this painful date.

Can “Holocaust art,” like works by Auschwitz prisoners for instance, be shown outside the camp in a typical art gallery? Can it be understood outside the Auschwitz context?

After changes by the Minister of Culture to the Museum Statute, The International Center for Teaching about Auschwitz and the Holocaust formally came into existence on may 13, 2005.

Oświęcim mayor Janusz Marszałek blames the lack of a current local zoning plan for the failure to obtain a ruling covering the use of the land on which the Old Theater stands, including any construction there. The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim wants to locate the International Center for Teaching about Auschwitz and the Holocaust there.

A meeting organized by the Museum examined the results of studies of the history and present state of the original camp kitchen building, which stands near the Auschwitz I Arbeit macht frei gate.