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International Summer Academy in German language

31-08-2013
From the 26-30 August at the International Centre for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust, the first International Summer Academy in German was held. This is a joint venture between the Centre for Education and the Higher School of Pedagogy in Vienna.

Transnational Training Programme. Polish, German, and Russian educational project

28-08-2013
The last session of the international work group for the trilateral Transnational Training Programme for educators from Poland, Germany, and Russia has come to a close. The project aims at acquainting its participants with the history of memorials, and presenting ways of incorporating human rights in teaching. Education should be based on the history of three memorials: Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Perm-36.

Opposed to a system of contempt. 72 anniversary of the death of Maximilian Kolbe

14-08-2013
72 years ago, in the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz, the Franciscan, Father Maximilian Kolbe, was murdered. On the anniversary of this event, by the block 11, where the monk was murdered, a holy mass was celebrated. It was presided over by the Ordinary of the Diocese of Bielsko-Żywiec, Bishop Tadeusz Rakoczy. The service was attended by hundreds of people.

Russia supports the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation

10-08-2013
The Russian Feredation will donate 1 million USD to the Perpetual Fund of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.

Bring Back the Humanity. A new publication recounts the stories of 5,453 prisoners from Wielkopolska

05-08-2013
Memorial Book. Transportations of Poles to KL Auschwitz from Wielkopolska, Pomorze, Ciechanów and Białystok Areas 1940-1944 is a new three-volume scientific publication issued by the Auschwitz Museum in Polish language version. Prepared by the Museum’s historian, Bohdan Piętka, it presents the fates of 5,453 prisoners sent by the Germans to Auschwitz in 84 transports from western and northern Polish lands incorporated into the German Reich.

Israeli educators at the Memorial Site

03-08-2013
A group of 25 educators from Israel participated in a specialist seminar entitled “Auschwitz in the collective consciousness in Poland and around the world. The role and significance of the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial for Jews and Poles,” which was held from 21st July to 1st August. It was organised by the International Centre for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in close cooperation with the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem.