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Oct. 10, Goleszów (PAP-Polish Press Agency) – A memorial chamber dedicated to the prisoners of Golleschau, an Auschwitz sub-camp, was opened on Tuesday at the cultural center in Goleszów, Cieszyń Silesia, Poland. The chamber is complemented by an educational walking trail around the local stone quarry, where prisoners, most of them Jewish, worked under murderous conditions during the war.

For some time now, residents of the housing settlements adjacent to the Museum have been concerned about various expert recommendations connected with the so-called Regulatory Plan for the Grounds and Immediate Surroundings of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp Site as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Object.

Oct. 6, Gdańsk (PAP-Polish Press Agency) – An inquiry by the Gdańsk Branch of the Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation has concluded that soap was made from human fat and used for general cleaning purposes at the Anatomy Institute of the Gdańsk Medical Academy, under the direction of Professor Rudolf Spanner, during the Second World War.

Anna Pawełczyńska's famous book Values and Violence: A Sociological Analysis [of Auschwitz] has gone on sale at the Museum's internet shop (it is available in Polish and German).

About 600 thousand people visited the Museum grounds, buildings, and exhibitions in the first 8 months of 2006, a figure close to that noted in the corresponding period last year.

The Deportation of Jews from the Łódź Ghetto to KL Auschwitz and their Extermination A new publication by Auschwitz MemorialThis is the first attempt at a detailed account of the deportation of the Jews from the Łódź ghetto to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in August 1944, and their subsequent fate.