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A group of 300 people, made up of Jews and Arabs from Israel and Palestinians, will visit the Museum on May 27-28. They will be joined in Oświęcim by a group of 200 people, mostly Jews and Muslims, from France.

Workers discovered an unexploded shell while doing excavation work on the grounds of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, near the building that once held the Carmelite Sisters' convent.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum website has been online for over four years. Because the contents of the site and the number of hits are growing constantly, the server is exceeding its capacity and slowing down with increasing frequency. The only solution is to add a new server. Its cost, around 4,000 euro, might seem modest. Unfortunately, however, we do not have the money.

Over 1,500 young Jews from all over the world, accompanied by Holocaust survivors and a group of several hundred Poles, walked the three-kilometer road between the sites of the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau camps. President Aleksander Kwaśniewski of Poland and President Moshe Katsav of Israel were special guests.

For the twelfth time, the March of the Living will be held on April 29, which is Holocaust Day (Yom Ha-Shoah) in Israel. At 1:00 PM, to the sound of the shofar, Holocaust survivors and accompanying groups of Jewish youth from all over the world will march out the Arbeit macht frei gate and begin the three-kilometer walk from the site of the Auschwitz I-Main Camp to the site of the Birkenau camp.

A shipping crate has arrived at the Museum Collections Department from Ashkelon, Israel. It contains 70 works by Halina Olomucka, the majority of which she has donated to the Museum. There are oil paintings, pastels, drawings, and works done in mixed techniques. The earliest works date from 1943 and the Warsaw ghetto.