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Guardian of National Memory Sites medals for employees of the Auschwitz Museum

Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Guardian of National Memory Sites gold and silver medals were presented to employees of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The solemn ceremony was presided over by Professor Andrzej Kunert, secretary of the Council for the Protection of Memory of Combat and Martyrdom (ROPWiM)
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70th anniversary of the death of St. Grigol Peradze attended by the Georgian President

Sunday, 09 December 2012
In the Auschwitz Memorial Site, celebrations were held for the 70th anniversary of the death of Archimandrite Grigol Peradze, an Orthodox holy martyr, who was murdered in the German Nazi concentration camp on Dec. 6, 1942. The pannichida, i.e. the Orthodox funeral service, was attended by, inter alia, the representatives of the Patriarchate of the Georgian Orthodox Church and the President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, Father Henryk Paprocki from the Orthodox parish of archbishop and martyr Grigol, author of the biography of St. Grigol Peradze, as well as the director of the Museum, Dr Piotr M.A. Cywiński. Before the ceremony at the Death Wall candles were lit in the courtyard of the Block 11.
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“Digital data archiving of victims of Nazism”. International conference at the Auschwitz Memorial Si

Wednesday, 28 November 2012
The conference “Digital data archiving of victims of Nazism,” organised by the Auschwitz Museum, was attended by representatives of 26 institutions from seven countries in Europe, the USA and Israel, mainly specialist involved in the building of a database consisting of the names and surnames of those persecuted by the Nazis. The theme of the meeting was to discuss the problem of a long-term storage of digital data.
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Support from France for the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation

Friday, 23 November 2012
In Paris, a convention was signed under which the French Republic will provide 5 million euro to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation’s Perpetual Fund. The sum will be transferred in five instalments starting from 2012. The agreement was signed by the French Minister of Veterans, Kader Arif, and from the side of the Foundation, its president, Dr Piotr M.A. Cywiński.
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Auschwitz in the context of the prevention of crimes of genocide

Thursday, 22 November 2012
Nearly 50 diplomats and representatives of the governments from around the world took part in the Raphael Lemkin Seminar which was organised by the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (AIPR) in collaboration with the International Centre for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust and the United Nations.
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