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The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust has published a folder presenting the work of six Oświęcim based institutions that deal in education connected with the Auschwitz Memorial Site. “You can learn about Auschwitz and the Holocaust anywhere. However, it is in Oświęcim that you can learn not only the history of the camp’s function, acquaint oneself with memoirs of witnesses, but also personally see the original, material proof — from the ruins of the crematoria and gas chambers to a single children’s shoe. Learning at the authentic, emotionally charged place makes it easier in understanding the tragedy and uniqueness of the Holocaust as well as the extreme conditions of camp life” — we read in the introduction to the folder “Auschwitz: Remembrance and Education”.

An exhibition by the French photographer, Emmanuel Berry, titled "Image Versus Knowledge" has opened in the temporary exhibition room in block 12 at the Auschwitz I site. It consists of 42 black-and-white photographs depicting the immediate surroundings of the Auschwitz complex: streams, woods, villages, individual houses, fields, and the urban periphery.

There have been 111 declarations of intent to enter the competition for the architectonic and urban planning design of the new visitor service centure at the Auschwitz Memorial . It will be built at the site of the PKSiS bus garage adjacent to the Museum.

Yad Vashem in Jerusalem will prepare an entirely new exhibition devoted to the destruction of the Jews, to be installed in block 27 at the Auschwitz I site. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Director Dr. Piotr M.A. Cywiński and Yad Vashem Director Avner Shalev signed an agreement in Oświęcim to replace the existing exhibition, titled “The Martyrdom and Struggle of the Jews in Europe in the Years 1933-1945.”

A memorial in the form of a railroad car has been symbolically unveiled next to the ramp, or unloading platform, at the site of the Nazi German Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. It is dedicated to the memory of the more than 400 thousand Hungarian Jews deported to Auschwitz by the Nazis between May and July 1944. The railroad car stands at the place where SS physicians carried out selection, sending the majority of the deported Jews to death in the gas chambers.

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