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The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim and the Auschwitz Preservation Society invite you to a ceremony on the 61st Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz at the site of the Birkenau camp, January 27, 2006, at noon. The Honorary Patron of the ceremony is The Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz.

Jan. 9, Bielsko-Biała (PAP) – Archival data on some 50,000 Poles deported to Auschwitz from Warsaw, southern Poland, and the Kielce region will be made available at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum website.

Jan. 3, Bielsko-Biała (PAP) – A team representing the Polish episcopate, the internal affairs and administration ministry, and the police visited Wadowice and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on Tuesday. Both places may figure in the itinerary during Pope Benedict XVI’s May pilgrimage to Poland.

Almost a million people visited the grounds, buildings, and exhibitions of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in 2005. Attendance had fluctuated between 500-700 thousand annually in the previous few years. The number of visitors in 2005 was the highest since 1972.

The program marked the 60th anniversary, on January 27, 2005, of the liberation of Auschwitz. In homage to the millions of victims of Nazi terror, the Museum agreed for the first time to the filming at the Auschwitz site of performances by internationally renowned musicians.

The five-volume Księga Pamięci. Transporty Polaków do KL Auschwitz z Radomia i innych miejscowości Kielecczyzny 1940-1944 [Memorial Book: Transports of Poles to Auschwitz Concentration Camp from Radom and Other Localities in the Kielce Region, 1940-1944] has been published.