American teacher Theodore Kempinski has been appointed as the Honorary Consul of the Auschwitz Memorial in the United States. He will primarily support the activities undertaken by the Diplomacy of Remembrance of the Museum in the State of Massachusetts.
The complete, five-volume edition of the new "Chronicle of Events at KL Auschwitz" has been released in Polish. On 2,216 pages, the functioning of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz is detailed day by day.
Prof. Michael Berenbaum has been honored with the "Light of Remembrance," the highest award of the Auschwitz Memorial Site. The award was presented to him on October 29th during the meeting of the International Auschwitz Council by Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński, director of the Auschwitz Museum.
The 40th session of the International Auschwitz Council was held at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews on 29 October. It was chaired by Prof. Dariusz Stola.
The architectural design of the new Visitor Services Center at the Auschwitz Museum has been awarded the best architectural object in the "Architecture in the Heritage Space" category by the Jury of the Award of the Year of the Association of Polish Architects.
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