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Summer School Students Visit Auschwitz Site

08-07-2006
The Museum played host for a day to students from the Holocaust Teaching Summer School, held in Cracow from July 3-7 and designed to provide interested teachers with additional knowledge of the subject.

Seminar for Israeli Educators. Auschwitz in the collective consciousness of Poland and the world

04-07-2006
Israeli teachers and guides from the Yad Vashem Memorial Institute in Jerusalem attended the inauguration of a seminar titled Auschwitz in the Collective Consciousness of Poland and the World: The Role and Significance of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial for Jews and Poles.

Valuable historical objects discovered in the ruins of gas chambers in Birkenau.

23-06-2006
The Museum's Collections Department has added several valuable historical exhibits over the last few days. They were discovered in the course of preservation work at the ruins of gas chambers and crematoria II and III at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site.

Sent to Auschwitz for Aiding Jews in German-Occupied Poland

22-06-2006
June 21, Warsaw (PAP-Polish Press Agency)-Ten people were awarded Righteous among the Nations of the World medals on Wednesday. The medals are given to individuals and families who risked their own lives to rescue Jews during World War II. Polish President Lech Kaczyński attended the ceremony and said that the recipients had demonstrated "supreme valor.".

Auschwitz State Museum Director Jerzy Wróblewski Awarded Gloria Artis Medal for Service to Culture

21-06-2006
Minister of Culture and National Heritage Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski has awarded the Gloria Artis—Service to Culture medal to outgoing Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum director Jerzy Wróblewski.

New Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum Director to Come in September 2006.

20-06-2006
June 12, Warsaw (PAP-Polish Press Agency) – Piotr Cywiński was named director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on Monday by Minister of Culture and National Heritage Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski. Cywiński will take up his duties on September 1.