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MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU FORMER GERMAN NAZI CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP
Thanks to Polish civilians and escapees from the camp, the world learned the truth about the Nazi German Auschwitz Concentration Camp while the war was still on.
Bielsko Biała, April 11 (PAP-Polish Press Agency). About 70 volunteers are taking part in an Oral History project under the auspices of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The goal is to collect the greatest possible number of accounts by former Auschwitz prisoners, MCEAH information section head Jacek Lech told a press conference on Tuesday.
The Polish government has appropriated 7.72 million zloty, double last year’s figure, for the Oświęcim program, which supports investment in this place that is special for both Poland and the world. The official documents were signed yesterday in the office of the voivode (provincial governor).
April 6, Bielsko-Biała (PAP – Polish Press Agency) – Members of the board of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust (ICEAH) at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, appointed last October, convened for the first time on April 5-6.
Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz today named Professor Władysław Bartoszewski Chairman of the International Auschwitz Council, whose previous term of office expired in February.
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