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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced in Cracow on Saturday that the United States will support the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation to the amount of $15 million (€12.2 million), bringing pledges to the Foundation to around €80 million—two-thirds of the required total of €120 million—in less than a year and a half since it was established. Clinton flew into Cracow for a meeting to mark the tenth anniversary of the Community of Democracies.

The third Raphael Lemkin Seminar—organized by the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, The Raphael Lemkin Center for the Prevention of Genocide, and the Holocaust Research Center at the Jagiellonian University—has come to an end.

​23 students from the District Economic-Gastronomical School Number 4 (Powiatowy Zespół Szkół Ekonomiczno-Gastronomicznych nr 4) in Oświęcim took part in the finale of the educational project organized by the International Center for Education About Auschwitz and the Holocaust.

Educators from the Auschwitz Museum and other memorials in Poland had a chance to examine the German perspective on commemorating the victims of Nazism. As part of the Tracks Project, they spent a week as invited guests at the Documentation Center in Nuremberg, which is located in the historic Congress Hall on the grounds where party rallies were held under the Third Reich.

The German government will contribute €120,000 to cover the cost of running the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation office in 2010 under an agreement signed in Warsaw by the Michael H. Gerdts, the ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, and Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński, president of the Foundation Management Board.

For the exhibit “The Track. Logistics of Racial Mania” (May 19 – October 31, 2010) a permanent live internet connection has been installed between Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Documentation Centre on the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg. This place of genocide is linked to the place where the Racial Laws where proclaimed in 1935.