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At the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, a meeting of the Council for Museums was held. It is a prestigious opinion-forming and advisory body acting under the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

The highly popular and interesting temporary exhibition “Forbidden Art,” which previously could only be viewed by the visitors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, has arrived in the USA. Here you can see 20 works of art from the collections of the Museum created illegally by the prisoners who risked their lives in the Nazi German concentration camps.

Several hundred people attended a mass at the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz to celebrate the 71st anniversary of the death of the Franciscan friar Maximilian Maria Kolbe.

Approximately 300 worshipers attended the 70th celebration anniversary of the death of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross — Edith Stein - which took place in the former German Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.

From the 15th to the 26th of July, a group of educators from Israel took part in the seminar "Auschwitz in the Collective Consciousness in Poland and around the World. The Role and Significance of the Memory about Auschwitz-Birkenau for Jews and Poles," which was organised by the International Centre for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

Several hundred people attended the ceremony of the Genocide Remembrance Day of the Roma and Sinti at the former German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau. The ceremony was held on 68th anniversary of the liquidation of the so-called Gypsy Family Camp (Zigeunerfamilienlager). On the night of 2 to 3 August 1944, the Nazis murdered in gas chambers in Birkenau nearly 3000 children, women and men.