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The permanent exhibition titled The Citizen Betrayed – The Memory of Holocaust Victims from Hungary opens in Block no. 18 at the Auschwitz I-Main Camp on April 15, 2004. Magyar Balint, Hungarian education minister and Ryszard Mikliński, subsecretary of state of the Polish culture ministry, will attend the ceremonies, which begin at 3:00 PM.

Małopolska Deputy Governor Jadwiga Nowakowska and Polish Ministry of Culture Undersecretary of State Ryszard Mikliński attended the official transfer to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum of the Gravel Pit grounds including the “Old Theater” building.

True Data Technology, headquartered in Carlsbad, CA, has presented the Museum with a cutting-edge internet server to upgrade its website. The site, available in Polish, English, and German, has attracted 750,000 hits from around the world, and traffic continues to grow.

Stanisław Ryniak, an engineer from Wrocław, Poland, will never again travel to Oświęcim to take part—as he did each year—in commemorative observances at the Museum. The first political prisoner in Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Ryniak died recently in Wrocław at the age of 88 and was buried in Osobowicki Cemetery there.

The annual seven-week-long course for guides at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim has begun. It is intended to enhance the guides’ techniques and command of the subject matter.

Simone Veil, chairwoman of the French Shoah Memorial Foundation, has informed the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum of a decision to award the Museum 40,000 euro as a subsidy for the translation into French and publication in that language of the “big Auschwitz monograph” – a collective work on the history of the Death Camp, written mostly by Museum research staff.