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The program marked the 60th anniversary, on January 27, 2005, of the liberation of Auschwitz. In homage to the millions of victims of Nazi terror, the Museum agreed for the first time to the filming at the Auschwitz site of performances by internationally renowned musicians.

The five-volume Księga Pamięci. Transporty Polaków do KL Auschwitz z Radomia i innych miejscowości Kielecczyzny 1940-1944 [Memorial Book: Transports of Poles to Auschwitz Concentration Camp from Radom and Other Localities in the Kielce Region, 1940-1944] has been published.

At a time when the whole world is condemning the Iranian president’s anti-Semitic remarks, the head of the largest opposition group in Egypt has said that the Holocaust is a myth invented by Jews. The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, the second largest party in the Egyptian parliament, repeated the words of the Iranian president, who called the Holocaust into doubt. “Western democracies attack anyone who does not share their Zionist version of the Holocaust, which is only a myth, after all,” said Muhammed Akef....

The five Christmas Eves behind the barbed wire of the Auschwitz German camp were rich in tragic events. Nevertheless, despite the threat of punishment, prisoners observed Christmas Eve. People who experienced the hell of Auschwitz will always remember those events.

Two figures of the number of Majdanek victims have usually been in use—360,000 or 235,000. Kranz, director of the Research Department of the State Museum at Majdanek, asserts that approximately 59,000 Jews and 19,000 people of other ethnic backgrounds, mostly Poles and Byelorussians, died there. Kranz published his estimate in the latest edition of the journal Zeszyty Majdanka.

With great sadness, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim announces the death in London, at the age of 92, of Józef Garliński, Home Army staff officer, prisoner of Pawiak and the Auschwitz and Neuengamme concentration camps, author of numerous historical studies, president of the Polish Writers Union Abroad, and an indefatigable activist in the Polish political émigré community.