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68 years ago, on August 1, 1944, the Warsaw Uprising broke out. On the anniversary of this event, punctually at 5 p.m. — at the W-Hour that begun the Warsaw Uprising — Museum Director, Dr. Piotr M.A. Cywiński, who is from Warsaw, paid tribute to the participants and victims of the Uprising. When the sirens sounded, he placed a wreath at the Death Wall in the former German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

“Memorial Sites as a Key for the Future Education” is the title of a seminar for Polish and Lithuanian educators, which was held on 9-14 July 2012. The training, which took place in Lithuania, was attended by 25 people: teachers and employees of departments of education at memorial sites throughout Poland who implement the theme of World War II within their work with youth.

Australia has joined the project of creating the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation’s Perpetual Fund. The donation will be 500,000 Australian dollars.

Medal of the National Education Commission received two representatives of the International Centre for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust. From the hands of the Deputy Minister of Education, Tadeusz Sławecki, the awards received Andrzej Kacorzyk, deputy director of the Museum, who directs the work of the Centre, and Alicja Białecka, the head of the ICEAH Program Section.

“If it were not for ten...” is an award presented by the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum to volunteers who have supported the Memorial Site. It was presented for the first time on to ten volunteers and representatives of the institution for their many years of voluntary support.

At the end of June, the International Summer Academy took place at Memorial Sites. The English-language seminar of the International Centre for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust was attended by participants from, among others, Norway, Bulgaria, USA, Germany and Spain.