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Sunday, January 26, 2003 4:30 p.m. Arbeit Macht Frei Gate – State Museum, Oświecim (Auschwitz Main Camp site) Young People's Vigil light – music – spoken word In memory of those who remain forever beneath the heavens at Oświęcim.

The first session of the fifth post-graduate course co-organized by the Museum and the Pedagogical Academy in Cracow was held on Friday, January 25. After the opening ceremonies, the participants met with Madame Borras, a former Auschwitz Concentration Camp prisoner from France.

Professor Marian Kołodziej has made his final addition of new drawings to the exhibit of his work, titled Images from Memory: Labyrinths, in the basement of the church at the International Father Kolbe Center in Harmęże.

As they do each year on the anniversary of the start of the Death March by prisoners of the Jawiszowice sub-camp of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, a delegation of miners from the Brzeszcze Coal Mine placed floral tributes at the memorial marking the event.

Preservation work began several weeks ago on the Crematorium I building at the site of the Auschwitz I Main Camp. The walls were extremely vulnerable to water leakage. Any hard rain resulted in the seepage of water into the building, damaging its structure. The waterproofing work now underway, scheduled for completion by the end of January, will dry the walls and protect the building against seepage.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum has published, in German and Polish, an album titled Nie wolno o nich zapomnieć (To Forget about Them Would Be Unthinkable), by Museum historian Helena Kubica. It is devoted to the memory of the children deported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp, the majority of whom were murdered in the camp by the Germans or fell victim to the conditions of life in the camp.