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Final Session in the Postgraduate Course

08-07-2002

The last session in this year's postgraduate course on "Totalitarianism, Nazism, and the Holocaust," organized by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in cooperation with the National Education Commission Academy of Pedagogy in Cracow, ended on Friday, July 5. Thirty-two teachers of history and Polish, mostly from Małopolska province, participated in the course this year. The formal closing ceremony and awarding of diplomas will be held in Oświęcim on September 7.

Szewach Weiss, ambassador of Israel in Poland, met with the students. Weiss survived the war thanks to aid from Poles.
Szewach Weiss,...