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BBC Program on the 60th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation Wins International Emmy. DVD published.

28-11-2005
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.

Hot Off the Press. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum And the Auschwitz Preservation Society

20-10-2005
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.

Program Council Named for the Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust

14-10-2005
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.

The Camps Are in Poland, but They’re Not Polish. Brochures for Israelis

03-10-2005
The Polish embassy in Israel is working on a brochure campaign targeting young Israelis. The embassy wants young people who visit Poland to learn about the history of Polish-Jewish relations without distortions and negative stereotypes.

The Pines of Birkenau

27-09-2005
Thirty-five students from the Forestry and Ecology School Complex in Brynek spent two weeks at the Museum in September. As they do each year, the students concentrated on removing the wild-growth trees and bushes that spring up on the Museum grounds as a result of the natural expansion of vegetation.

Polish Educators in Israel. Yad Vashem Hosts Alumni of Auschwitz Museum Potsgraduate Course

23-09-2005
Twenty-five Polish educators—Museum guides, teachers, and staff from martyrdom museums—are taking part from September 18 to October 2 in a seminar, which has become a tradition, at the Yad Vashem Memorial Institute in Israel.