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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.

A seminar for Roman Catholic priests from Poland was held at the Yad Vashem Memorial Institute in Jerusalem from February 8 – 18. 30 priests attended.

Museum Director Piotr Cywiński met with former Auschwitz prisoners Józef Hordyński and Józef Stós, and veteran Henryk Łagodzki (a soldier in Warsaw Uprising in the battalion commanded by Captain Witold Pilecki), who requested the meeting in the context of plans to erect a Mound of Remembrance and Reconciliation. The Mound is the brainchild of another former Auschwitz prisoner, Professor Józef Szajna.