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A thousand copies of a special publication devoted to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation and the plans for a Perpetual Fund to cover the conservation of the Auschwitz Memorial are being distributed to people whose decisions can rescue the authenticity of Auschwitz for future generations.

A seminar for Polish teachers and educators took place November 14-26, 2010, at the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem. Taking part in the seminar were 25 staff members and guides of Museums as well as other Memorial Sites, middle and high school teachers, educators and trainers from various institutions involved in educational work about the Holocaust and the Second World War.

The Museum Archives have received three original documents from the camp hospital. They are the surgery record book from block 21 for the period from October 1, 1941 to September 4, 1942, containing the names of over 6,300 prisoners, and the two last record books from the x-ray lab in block 28 for the periods from April 8, 1944 to January 15, 1945.

The twentieth meeting of the International Auschwitz Council was held in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland. Professor Władysław Bartoszewski chaired the meeting. The main subjects of discussion were issues connected with the financing of memorials located on the former grounds of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers in occupied Poland....

Over 100 people participated in a meeting with the Israeli writer Batsheva Dagan. The meeting was organized by the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the end of November.

Auschwitz-Birkenau: the Past and the Present is a richly illustrated folder more than 20 pages long in no fewer than eighteen languages including Hebrew, Arabic, and Korean. It is available free of charge from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum website.