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MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU FORMER GERMAN NAZI CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP
The Federal Labor Court announced on Friday, July 7, that the case of restoring veterans' disability benefits to a former guard at the German Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp had not yet been resolved.
July 12, Vilnius (PAP) – The World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) decided on Wednesday to support a Polish proposal to change the name under which Auschwitz is inscribed on the organization's World Heritage List. Now inscribed as "Auschwitz Concentration Camp," the site will be renamed "Former Nazi German Concentration and Death Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.".
In early July, former Auschwitz prisoner Denise Karagiorga made a pilgrimage in the footsteps of her brother, Johann, who was deported to Auschwitz by the Nazis and died at the age of 16 in 1945.
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.
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.
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.
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