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From the 4 - 9 of March 2012, the third seminar was held in the Netherlands under the auspices of the Holocaust Education in European Perspective project (HEEP). The project is conducted for teachers, educators, as well as staff of institutions that deal with the history of World War II and the Holocaust. It is possible due to the cooperative work between the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.

Halina Birenbaum, former prisoner of the German Nazi Concentration and Death Camp Auschwitz, Israeli writer and poet, was recently a guest during an educational session conducted by the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust. During the two meetings, entitled “My Life has Begun at its End…”, which had taken place on March 23 and 24, over 300 individuals participated, mainly students, along with teachers as well as guides and the staff of the Memorial Site.

A special Memorial Train from Slovakia arrived at Auschwitz along a historical route commemorating the 70th anniversary of the deportation of the first group of Jewish women from Slovakia by the Nazis to Auschwitz. The ceremony at the Memorial Site was attended by Slovak Prime Minister, Iveta Radičová, Deputy Prime Minister, Jan Figel, and representatives of various denominations as well as a large group of young people. A particularly special guest was Edita Grosmanová, survivor of Auschwitz, who that time was sent to the camp.

For the first time in Polish, the book Auschwitz Trial by Hermann Langbein has been published, containing nearly 800 pages of accounts from one of the largest trials against the perpetrators of Auschwitz, which took place from 1963-1965 in Frankfurt am Main in Germany.

International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust announces recruitment for the Second International Summer Academy that is organized as part of educational programs offered by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. This year’s edition will take place in June 24-29 in Oświęcim and Cracow, Poland.

“We were people like all other people on earth. We had family friends, homes...” – This is the title of a new temporary exhibition at the Auschwitz Memorial. At the exhibition, you can see many items belonging to people, the vast majority of whom were Jews, deported by Germans to Auschwitz.