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MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU FORMER GERMAN NAZI
CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP

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Children in Auschwitz Concentration Camp. A Conference on the Youngest Victims

20-04-2001

The Museum Education Center organized a conference on "Children in Auschwitz Concentration Camp." Participants included 30 Polish and history teachers from Malopolska and Silesia provinces. These teachers have all completed the Department's post-graduate course.

The conference program featured lectures in the Birkenau children's block on "The Youngest Prisoners in Auschwitz Concentration Camp" and "Dr. Mengele's Crimes." The teachers also took part in a workshop on "The Fate of Children in Auschwitz Concentration Camp on the Basis of Documentsand Accounts by Former Prisoners."