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​A meeting of the Program Board of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust has taken place at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

For the forth time, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum has hosted participants of the European Seminar: Auschwitz and the Holocaust in the context of teaching about memory in Europe.

Another volume of “Voices of Memory” is to be published, this time dealing with the mass murder of the Roma in Auschwitz-Birkenau. This will be a joint project of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust and the Association of Roma in Poland.

The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the State Museum Auschwitz Birkenau in cooperation with the Warsaw Center for Social Innovation and Education Training organized a conference 4-5 September 2009 entitled “Using Audiovisual Material in Educating about the Holocaust.”

A new research publication by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, titled Księga Pamięci. Transporty Polaków do KL Auschwitz z Lublina i innych miejscowości Lubelszczyzny 1940-1944 (Memorial Book: Transports of Poles to Auschwitz Concentration Camp from Lublin and Other Localities in the Lublin Region, 1940-1944), was launched on October 28 at Lublin Castle.

This year we marked the 65th anniversary of the liquidation by the Nazis of the so-called Gypsy family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau. On the night of August 2/3, 1944, the Nazis murdered 2,897 men, women, and children in the gas chamber—the last of the approximately 23 thousand Roma deported to Auschwitz. In Oś you will find extensive coverage of the observances, fragments of accounts recalling the events of 65 years ago, and information about a new volume in the Voices of Memory series, dedicated to the story of the Roma prisoners of Auschwitz.