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The ceremonial signing of a contract with representatives of the German Federal Land of North Rhine-Westphalia will take place on July 1, 2007 at the Museum Preservation Workshop. It covers the conservation of the documents of the SS Hygiene Institute at Auschwiotz, held in the Museum Archives. The records cover the period from April 10, 1943 to January 12, 1945.

During its 31st session, in New Zealand on June 27, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee approved a change in the entry for the remains of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

The Museum has published a second, expanded edition of the guide titled Auschwitz-Birkenau: History and the Present. In fewer than 100 pages, it conveys the essential information about the history of the Nazi German concentration camp, and describes the founding and ongoing work of the Museum.

This doesn’t happen every day: one of the most prestigious newspapers in Israel publishes an article that’s exceptionally favorable towards Poland.

Museum staff members and former prisoners honored the 67th anniversary of the first deportation of 728 Polish political prisoners to the Auschwitz Nazi German concentration camp. They laid wreathes and lighted candles at the Death Wall outside Block no. 11, where the Germans shot at least several thousand people.

Museum staff placed floral tributes at the place where Polish prisoners in the so-called penal company attempted to escape while working on the grounds of the Birkenau camp on June 19, 1942.