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Who Built the Auschwitz German Concentration Camp? A Controversial Statement by an Official of the World Jewish Congress.

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.

About 6,000 Jews from 20 countries will take part in the March of the Living, according to the organizers. The March will be held on April 25. Participants will arrive at the Auschwitz Museum in the morning. After a short prayer and speeches, the participants will form up at approximately 1:00 PM and march through Leszczyńska, Męczeństwa Narodów, and Ofiar Faszyzmu Streets to the site of the Birkenau camp.

Judges from the Constitutional Tribunal of the Polish Republic and the Constitutional Court of the Italian Republic made a joint visit to the Museum on Friday, March 31. They toured the site of the German concentration camp and laid wreaths at the Death Wall in Auschwitz and the Monument to Victims of the Camp in Birkenau.

March 26 marked the 64th anniversary of the first transport of women to the German Auschwitz camp. There were 999 female prisoners on the first train from Ravensbrueck Concentration Camp. Most of them were criminals and “asocials.” There were also between ten and twenty political prisoners among them. On that same day, the Germans also transported 999 Jewish women to the camp from Poprad in Slovakia.