From February 27th to March 4th, the yearly memory trip organized by the Italian history institute “Istoreco” to Krakow and Auschwitz-Birkenau took place the ninth time with 430 participants.
More than 200 former prisoners of the Auschwitz German camp have now signed the Foundation Act of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust, which will be opened at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
A conference titled Medicine in Auschwitz took place at the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust on March 10. It was the first of several educational events for teachers scheduled this year.
Małopolska Voivode Maciej Klima presented orders granted by the President of the Polish Republic to people who extended help to concentration camp prisoners. These people of good will were honored with the Officer’s Cross and Knight’s Cross of the Order of Poland Reborn.
A new group of students from an institution of higher education in Oświęcim will have their summer work experience at the Auschwitz Museum. Arrangements were made during a meeting between Andrzej Kacorzyk, director of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, and Professor Lucjan Suchanek, rector of the State Higher Vocational School.
About a million people visited the site of the former Nazi German Auschwitz concentration camp last year. Over half of them came from abroad. They could call on almost 200 licensed Museum guides, who work in a total of 16 languages.
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