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The president of the Swiss Confederation and Minister of Foreign Affairs Didier Burkhalter together with his wife visited the Auschwitz Memorial Site and Museum on 28 January 2014. They were greeted and guided around the site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp by the director of the Museum, Dr Piotr M.A. Cywiński.

On the 27th of January 2014, 69 years have passed since the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. The anniversary ceremony, which took place at the former Aushwitz II-Birkenau camp were attended by former prisoners of Auschwitz and Holocaust survivors.

A report on the year 2013 in the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum was published. In the introduction, director Dr. Piotr M.A. Cywiński underlined an incredible symbolic significance of the history of this Nazi German concentration and extermination camp.

The on-line lesson “Auschwitz — Concentration and Extermination Camp“, which focuses on the most important topics in the history of this Nazi German camp, has been translated into four new languages: Arabic, Persian, Portuguese and Spanish. The Auschwitz Memorial is a pioneer of e-learning in institutions of this kind in Europe. The lesson is already avaiable in Polish and English.

We invite all people who are interested in Auschwitz-related issues and Holocaust education to the International Summer Academy 2014 – a seminar organised in English and German. In particular, we would like to invite teachers, educators, museum personnel and employees of those institutions that deal with the history of the Second World War.

1.33 m people from all over the world visited the Auschwitz Memorial in 2013. A high turnout from previous years has been maintained. The majority of visitors consist of young people arriving mostly as part of various educational programmes.