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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.

The 33rd annual International Emmy Awards ceremony, the TV equivalent of the Oscars, was held under the auspices of the International Academy for Television Arts and Sciences in New York on November 21.

Ludzie dobrej woli. Księga Pamięci mieszkańców Ziemi Oświęcimskiej niosących pomoc więźniom KL Auschwitz [People of Good Will: Memorial Book of Oświęcim Land Residents Who Aided Auschwitz Concentration Camp Prisoners]. Henryka Świebockiego, editor.

Stefan Wilkanowicz has been named chairman of the Program Board of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust (ICE) at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Bartosz Bartyzel of the ICE information section said on Thursday that Wilkanowicz and the other nine members of the board were formally appointed by the Polish Ministry of Culture.