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Prime Minister David Cameron has stated that the United Kingdom will financially support the Perpetual Fund of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation in maintaining the grounds and buildings at the site of the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz. Asked in the House of Commons about support for the Fund, Cameron answered in the affirmative and went on to add that “Auschwitz-Birkenau is a very powerful reminder of the ultimate consequences of intolerance, and it is only right that it should be preserved to bear witness to the deaths of the millions of victims who perished there and to act as a stark reminder of man's inhumanity to man."

“Confrontation and Reflection” is the title of the winning poster in the Third Biennial of Socio-Political Poster in Oświęcim, which adorns the cover. Its author Bangqian Zheng is from China. The 74 best posters of the contest can be viewed at the International Youth Meeting Center until the end of the year. In this month’s Oś you will find a review of the exhibit and a report about the awards ceremony. DOWNLOAD PDF FILE...

A thousand copies of a special publication devoted to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation and the plans for a Perpetual Fund to cover the conservation of the Auschwitz Memorial are being distributed to people whose decisions can rescue the authenticity of Auschwitz for future generations.

A seminar for Polish teachers and educators took place November 14-26, 2010, at the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem. Taking part in the seminar were 25 staff members and guides of Museums as well as other Memorial Sites, middle and high school teachers, educators and trainers from various institutions involved in educational work about the Holocaust and the Second World War.

The Museum Archives have received three original documents from the camp hospital. They are the surgery record book from block 21 for the period from October 1, 1941 to September 4, 1942, containing the names of over 6,300 prisoners, and the two last record books from the x-ray lab in block 28 for the periods from April 8, 1944 to January 15, 1945.

The twentieth meeting of the International Auschwitz Council was held in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland. Professor Władysław Bartoszewski chaired the meeting. The main subjects of discussion were issues connected with the financing of memorials located on the former grounds of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers in occupied Poland....