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The diary made by prisoners of the German concentration camps: Auschwitz, Dachau and Mauthausen-Gusen, has been donated to the Auschwitz Memorial Site. In this unique, dozen pages notebook are drawings of camp scenes and poems. The diary was offered to the Museum by Eleanor Hensel from California, the wife of U.S. Army Lieutenant Clifford Hensel, who participated in the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps in Germany.

Personalities from the world of politics and religion, who for over 65 years have paid tribute to the victims of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz, are present at the Museum’s temporary exhibition "Auschwitz, Memory, World". The exhibition can be seen until the end of August in Kraków.

An exhibition dedicated to the orchestras functioning in the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz can be seen at the Memorial Site until 21 June.

On 22 May, a group of Muslim clerics, activists and teachers visited Auschwitz Memorial Site and Museum. The study visit was part of a special program co-organised by the U.S. State Department, which aims to combat anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.

On 17th May, the President of the Republic of Poland, Bronisław Komorowski, visited the Memorial Site and the Auschwitz Museum. In front of the building of the former camp's crematorium and gas chamber no. I, he laid a wreath and paid tribute to the victims of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp.

The Museum Council for the term of 2012 – 2016 held its session in the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The Council, appointed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, supervises the statutory operation of the Museum, and also expresses opinions on the Museum’s plans of operation. An important issue discussed at the meeting were more and more realistic threats related to the freezing of wages.