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Thanks to help from the staff of the Office for Information on Former Prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, Auschwitz survivor Denise Karagiorga learned of her brother’s tragic fate 60 years after the fact.

Wiek ludobójstwa (The Age of Genocide), by the French expert Bernard Brunetau, is being made available to Polish readers for the first time. The book presents a wide range of views by philosophers, historians, and sociologists on the causes of genocide in the 20th century, which Brunetau terms, with considerable justification, “the age of genocide.”.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim and the Auschwitz Preservation Society invite you to a ceremony on the 61st Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz at the site of the Birkenau camp, January 27, 2006, at noon. The Honorary Patron of the ceremony is The Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz.

Jan. 9, Bielsko-Biała (PAP) – Archival data on some 50,000 Poles deported to Auschwitz from Warsaw, southern Poland, and the Kielce region will be made available at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum website.

Jan. 3, Bielsko-Biała (PAP) – A team representing the Polish episcopate, the internal affairs and administration ministry, and the police visited Wadowice and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on Tuesday. Both places may figure in the itinerary during Pope Benedict XVI’s May pilgrimage to Poland.

Almost a million people visited the grounds, buildings, and exhibitions of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in 2005. Attendance had fluctuated between 500-700 thousand annually in the previous few years. The number of visitors in 2005 was the highest since 1972.