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The original Arbeit macht frei inscription, stolen from above the main gate at the site of the Auschwitz Nazi German concentration camp and extermination center in Dcember 2009, returned today to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

Just three months after its founding, 25 thousand people from all over the world have joined the official Auschwitz Memorial page at Facebook.

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A group of Auschwitz Memorial historians commemorated the tragic events that took place 65 years ago, during the Marches of Death in the second half of January 1945. They placed flowers and lighted candles in Brzeszcze, Pszczyna, Brzeźce, Pawłowice, Jastrzębia, Wodzisław, Świerklany, Żory, Suszc, and Bieruń Stary.

Here is the 20th issue of the monthly Oś Oświęcim—People—History—Culture and the 12th translated into English. In this issue, we cover a far more important anniversary—at the end of November, the prominent graphic artist Paweł Warchoł celebrated a quarter century as a professional artist. We carry a report on the special gala held to mark the occasion at the International Youth Meeting Center.

The director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński, presented the rector of the State Higher Vocational School in Oświęcim, Prof. Lucjan Suchanek, with a copy of the letter found on the campus last May. During the war, prisoners built an air-raid shelter there. On September 20, 1944, they walled in the bottle containing a letter to which they affixed their names.