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

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They talked about Dinah Gottlieb-Babbitt and a mound of memory and reconciliation

12-09-2001

The fourth session of the International Auschwitz Council was held in Oświęcim from September 10-11, 2001.

Issues during the session included Dinah Gottlieb-Babbitt's watercolors. The council issued a statement declaring that, as material documenting Nazi crimes against humanity, the paintings belong at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim. Another subject at the Council session was the proposal by Professor Józef Szajna for building a mound of memory and reconciliation. The mound would be located between the sites of the Auschwitz and Birkenau camps. The Council heard a report from Museum director Jerzy Wróblewski on recent achievements in the fields of publications and exhibitions, of which the most significant was the opening in August of an exhibition on the martyrology of the Roma (see 'August' above).

Representatives of the Polish government and local governments took part in the session, which was led by Council chairman Władysława Bartoszewskiego and vice-chairman Stefan Wilkanowicz.

The council was convened last June by Polish prime minister Jerzy Buzek as a source of expert opinion and advice on questions concerning all the Nazi death camp sites in Poland. The Council has 25 members from Poland, Israel, the SA, Germany, Austria, England, and France.