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Museum Director Dr. Piotr M.A. Cywiński met with guides to the grounds of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on the occasion of the recent 60th anniversary of the founding of the Museum.

Museum information technology specialists have put a fiber-optic-based area network into operation. It covers seven buildings at the Auschwitz I site and connects almost 200 computers.

A meeting with retired and active Museum staff on Friday, July 6, concluded the string of events marking the 60th anniversary of the institution. Three temporary exhibitions opened and the book Tear It Down and Plow It Under...? was published, but the centerpiece was the international conference on Remembrance, Awareness, and Responsibility.

The latest seminar on The Memory of Auschwitz and Its Meaning for Poles and Jews has begun. Twenty-two educators from Israel are attending, mostly employees of the Yad Vashem Memorial Institute in Jerusalem, but also including leader/guides of the Israeli youth groups that visit Poland.

The International Auschwitz Council held its 14th session at the Center for Dialogue and Prayer in Oświęcim on July 4-5. Director Piotr M. A. Cywiński opened the meeting with a report on the operations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum from January to June 2007

Once again, teachers interested in the Holocaust are taking part in an intensive five-day program on this difficult subject. The Second “Teaching the Holocaust” Summer School, from July 2-6, 2007, follows up on the success of last year’s course and reflects the undiminished interest in the theme.