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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.

Preparations for Opening the New Belgian Exhibition

21-09-2005
Preparations have begun for a new Belgian permanent exhibition at the Auschwitz I site (Block no. 20). The appropriate Belgian cabinet minister has commissioned the Museum of Deportation and the Resistance Movement in Mechelen (Malines) to design the project, which will be completed in cooperation with the Auschwitz Museum. Belgian soldiers have arrived in Oświęcim and will spend several weeks dismantling the old exhibition.

The 64th Anniversary of the Opening of the Auschwitz Camp for Soviet POWs

13-09-2005
September 15 was the 64th anniversary of the establishment of the Russisches Kriegsgefagenen Arbeitslager, or labor camp for Soviet prisoners of war, in Auschwitz. The Nazis treated the captured Soviet soldiers with exceptional harshness. Only a handful survived out of a total of around 15,000 held at Auschwitz.

Preservation Work at the Birkenau Site

01-09-2005
Preservation work on one of the wooden barracks at the site of the men’s quarantine camp in Birkenau sector BIIa will continue until October.