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The New Zealand Government through the Ministry for Culture and Heritage has announced it will donate €50,000 to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.

The government of Israel has joined in supporting the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation’s Perpetual Fund project. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that the support will amount to 3,600,000 new shekels, or about $1,000,000. The goal of the Foundation is to finance a long-term program for conserving the authentic Memorial. The overarching value inspiring the effort is maintaining the maximum authenticity and legibility of the post-camp space for future generations....

The five-volume monograph Auschwitz 1940-1945: Central Issues in the History of the Camp has come out in French. A translation of the Polish edition that appeared in 1995 with Wacław Długoborski and Franciszek Piper as editors, it has been updated to reflect the latest historical findings. At 2,167 pages, the new edition is the most extensive collection to date of scholarly studies describing the origins and functioning of the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz.

In June, the Jewish Center hosted FASPE project participants, on which we reported in the previous issue of the monthly. Among them were young journalists as well as students from the Columbia University in New York. In this issue of Oś, we are publishing their texts, which were the effect of the ten-day program.

Poland is supporting the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation Perpetual Fund with a grant of €10 million. All the parties in the Polish parliament lent their support to a special bill which on 5 October was signed by Bronisław Komorowski, the president of the Polish Republic.

The “European pack for visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum” — an English language publication for teachers and educators who are planning a visit to the Auschwitz Memorial Site, has been made available electronically on the Auschwitz Museum internet site.