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Conservators from the Auschwitz Memorial Site have reassembled and restored the original sign, bearing the inscription Arbeit macht frei, which was destroyed by thieves. In Oś you can read about how the restoration work progressed as well as see photographs documenting the work that was done.
Among other issues relating to conservation, recent meetings devoted to this subject were held by the Board of Trustees of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation and The International Auschwitz Council. In this issue you will find reports from both events. We also report on the meeting of experts who met to discuss the future of the Memorial Site located in Ponary, Lithuania. Among those joining in this discussion was Dr. Piotr M.A. Cywiński, the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
Human Rights Yesterday—Human Rights Today. The Resistance Movement and Civil Courage—is the title of the second meeting in the Polish-German youth exchange, which can be read about on the pages of the International Youth Meeting Center. There you will also find information about a seminar on forced migration of Germans and Poles.
From this month’s edition, we begin the presentation of the guide Oshpitzin, which has been prepared by the Jewish Center. In the middle of this publication you will find a map and a description of the first of several buildings and sites, thanks to which you can learn about the Jewish history of Oświęcim. In this Oś, we also publish an interview with David G. Marwell, the director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, which is affiliated with the Jewish Center in Oświęcim.
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