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New English language edition of "Oś" Monthly Magazine
The number of visitors to the Auschwitz Memorial in the last decade has increased threefold. Last year saw another record—1.3 million people, mainly from abroad, visited the Museum. In the near future, the adjacent bus depot will be transformed into a new visitors center. In the competition to develop this plan, KKM Kozień Architekci was awarded first prize. Here you can see what the modern reception base will look like.
In this Oś, we also cover of the commemoration of Day of Remembrance for the Extermination of the Roma, which was held at the former Birkenau camp on August 2—the anniversary of the liquidation of the so-called family camp for Sinti and Roma. We also recommend reading the interview with Piotr Kadlčik, President of the Union of Jewish Communities in Poland and member of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation Council.
On the pages of the International Youth Meeting Center you can read about the visit of the new volunteers from the Action Reconciliation Service for Peace to memorial sites, as well as the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, whose scholarship winners— American teachers—were hosted in Oświęcim during their two-week study trip to Germany and Poland.
We also recommend the refl ective article written by a young volunteer for the Center for Dialogue and Prayer, Max Sundermann, and we invite you to the events connected with the 10th anniversary of the Jewish Center in Oświęcim.
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