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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.

Polish government aid to Oświęcim will amount to almost 1,400,000 złoty this year. Representatives of the government, the provincial governor, the provincial marshal, and local government officials signed an agreement for the realization of Stage II of the Oświecim Government Strategic Program yesterday.

A temporary exhibition of drawings by former Auschwitz Concentration Camp prisoner Marian Kołodziej has opened in Block no. 12 at the site of the Auschwitz I Main Camp.

A new memorial tablet in the traditional language of this group of victims was unveiled on the sixtieth anniversary of the Nazi deportation of the first group of Greek Jews for extermination in Auschwitz. The Nazi Germans murdered tens of thousands of Sephardic Jewish men, women, and children in Auschwitz.

The Archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum contain approximately 3,000 accounts by former prisoners, as well as testimony from the trial of the camp garrison. To this day, the material has not been edited as "literature of fact." The accessible reportage form could fill the gap between memoir literature and scholarly studies.

A new memorial tablet will be unveiled at the monument to the victims of the camp at the Birkenau site at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, March 24, 2003, the anniversary of the first transport sent by the Nazis from Salonika to Auschwitz.