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The first number of the English language Auschwitz Studies has been published by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The Studies have been available for 55 years in Polish and — as Hefte von Auschwitz — in German. Auschwitz Studies will replace the German language version.

“Above the ashes” is the title of a temporary exhibition by the French author Alexandra Bellamy which to 10 March will be presented at Auschwitz Museum in the temporary exhibition hall in block 12.

“Memorial Sites and human rights education in the context of the experience of violence in the twentieth century Europe” is the title of a new educational project, which brings together the representatives of the three Memorial Sites located in Poland, Germany and in Russia: Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Perm-36.

The exhibition "Forbidden Art," presenting 20 works of art made illegally, and at risk to the live, by prisoners of the German Nazi concentration camps, was opened in the Beth Sholom synagogue in Las Vegas.

An unusual book has been published in Polish language by the Auschwitz Museum: The Private Lives of the SS in Auschwitz.

27 January 2013 marked 68 years since the liberation of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz. The President of the Republic of Poland, Bronisław Komorowski, assumed honorary patronage over the anniversary ceremony.