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An event in the concert hall at the Karol Szymanowski State Music School First Degree in Oświęcim featured a performance of Brundibar, an opera for children by Hans Krasa, a Czech composer of Jewish origins, with a libretto by Adolf Hoffmeister.

About six thousand young Jews from all over the world were joined by more than a thousand young Poles in the twentieth March of the Living, held on the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Day. At the sound of the shofar they set out from the Arbeit macht frei gate at the Auschwitz I site, as they do each year. They marched to the vicinity of the ruins of the gas chambers and crematoria at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site, where the main observances were held.

Siblings from Cincinnati, moved by an appeal from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, organized a fundraiser at their school that brought in $1,200. The money will be added to the Foundation's Perpetual Fund, the interest from which is designated for the conservation of the grounds of the former German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz.

The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust hosted a group of officers and cadets to Fort Leavenworth, participants of the Raphael Lemkin Seminar that is jointly organized with the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation.

The last meeting of the Council of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in its four-year term of office was held. Council members unanimously approved a report on the activities of the Museum in 2010 and plans for next year.

The Auschwitz Memorial has received a Caravelle T5 car from Volkswagen. This valuable support for the work of the Museum was made possible thanks to the help of the International Auschwitz Committee and the personal involvement of its deputy chairman, Christoph Heubner. It is also a continuation of many years of cooperation with Volkswagen AG.