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President George W. Bush and his wife Laura paid a private visit to the Museum today. The guests toured both parts of the site of the camp and placed floral tributes in commemoration of the victims at the Death Wall in Auschwitz I and at the monument to the victims in Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

More than 100 Israeli Arabs toured the Auschwitz death camp alongside Israeli Jews on Tuesday, in a visit aimed at deepening Arab understanding of Jewish suffering during the Holocaust.

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.