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- Located near the site of the camp, the International Youth Meeting House in Oświęcim was founded in 1986 as an educational institution. It is the fruit of the involvement of many people in the process of Polish-German reconciliation and in the Christian-Jewish dialogue.
The Meeting House and its partners in Germany, Poland, Israel, and numerous other countries organize over 100 study trips each year, as well as international seminars.
Three spacious hotel pavilions are available to guests with a total of 100 beds in 36 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-person rooms. Tents can be pitched in a campground over the summer.
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- The Center for Dialogue and Prayer in Oświęcim is located near the Auschwitz Memorial. A Roman Catholic institution, it was founded in 1992 in agreement with bishops from all over Europe and with representatives of Jewish organizations.
The aim of the Center is to create a venue for meetings, discussions, education, reflection and prayer for all those who visit Auschwitz and are moved by what happened here.
The Center offers overnight accommodation and meals.
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- The Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oswiecim/Auschwitz was opened in September 2000 and includes the town’s only surviving synagogue – Chevra Lomdei Mishnayot – fully restored to its pre-war appearance, as well as a short film, an exhibition on pre-war Jewish life in the town, a genealogy center and a library.
With its educational programs, youth dialogue meetings and cultural events, the Center is the only active reminder of the rich Jewish life that once existed in Oswiecim.
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- Let us to present you the over 8-centuries history of Oswiecim, of an ancient Piast's castle situated on Sola river, its present day and possibilities of development.
This former capital of duchy, many times in the course of past ages experienced by fate, during the last war became marked with stamp of crime. This, what occurred in the former Nazis KL Auschwitz-Birkenau...
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- Website of the Father Kolbe Center and Sanctuary of Love Triumphant in Harmęże near Oświęcim. There was an Auschwitz Concentration Camp sub-camp there during the war (see T. Borowski, an Auschwitz survivor, and his short story: “A Day at Harmenze,” in This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen). The site features parts of the Memory Photographs exhibition by Marian Kołodziej, prisoner number 432, who was in the camp from the first to the last days of its existence. The whole exhibition can be seen at the Father Kolbe Center.
Those wishing to view the exhibition should make prior arrnagements with the Sanctuary
- Site in memory of the so-called transports 31,000 and 45,000 – the only transports of political prisoners sent to Auschwitz from France.
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- The Council is an advisory body affiliated at the Prime Minister created for six years term of office. Still, one of the Council's tasks is to cooperate with relevant ministers, local authorities and self-government as well as heads of the Monuments of Extermination on the ground of protection, management of those Monuments and in order to start fundraising to maintain the Monuments...
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- The International Auschwitz Committee was founded in 1952 by survivors of the Concentration- and Extermination Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, with several objectives:
To let the world know what happened in the Concentration- and Extermination Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
To look after the interests of the survivors.
To encourage and support contacts between the national Auschwitz committees
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- Our bookstore offering camp and holocaust literature on world market. Also thanks to the Internet we can expand our borders.
Our website is easy to search. You can visit us, search and order your favorite merchandise 24 hours. Our customer service can always help you with your choice!
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- The Galicia Jewish Museum was founded and set up by Chris Schwarz. For over 12 years, has been photographically documenting the physical remains of Jewish culture and civilization in Polish Galicia.The main exhibition is Traces of Memory - A Photographic Exhibition in Tribute to the Jews of Galicia consists of 150 large format colour photographs depicting what can be seen today in Poland of the one time great Jewish culture of Polish Galicia.
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- The website of the Social Publishing Institute, engaged in the Jewish-Catholic dialogue. Stefan Wilkanowicz,for many years the editor-in-chief of the monthly Znak, vice-president of the International Auschwitz Council, received an award for "pioneers in the Jewish-dialogue in Europe" from the European Jewish Congress in Paris in 2002.
Publications in the area of philosophy, religion, social science, history, and film.
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- The website of the Jewish community in Poland deals with Jewish news from Poland and around the world, foundations and associations in Poland, and a Jewish FAQ.
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- Website of the Yad Vashem Memorial Institute in Jerusalem.
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- A general-access archive of documents, images, and studies on the Holocaust, including direct refutations of statements by Holocaust deniers.
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- A survey of organizations active in Hoocaust commemoration, research, and education.
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- The Imperial War Museum's Holocaust Exhibition uses historical material to tell the story of the Nazis' persecution of the Jews and other groups before and during the Second World War.
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- Global Directory of Holocaust Museums
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- Website of the US Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C.
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- A large website describing the Nazi concentration and death camps. One section deals with Holocaust denial. Also includes transcripts of the Nuremberg trials and links to similar sites.
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- The website of the organizers of the annual March of the Living that has been held at the Auschwitz site for several years.
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- On 25 June, 1999 the German Bundestag passed a resolution to build a "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe." The Memorial, designed by New York architect Peter Eisenman, will be erected in the centre of Berlin, in the immediate vicinity of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag building, and will be complemented by an underground Information Centre...
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- A historical introduction to the Holocaust. Accounts by survivors, images, and an encyclopedia containing explanations of fundamental concepts. Links to similar sites.
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- “Aktion Reinhardt” was the code name given to the destruction of the Polish Jews by the Nazis during the Second World War, during 1942 - 1943. During the course of the action, Jews from other European countries, were transported and killed in the three death camps: Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka...
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- The Association of Jewish Refugees, widely and popularly known as the 'AJR', provides a range of services aimed at securing the welfare and maintaining the cultural traditions and interests of former Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution...
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- Fate has placed upon the survivors of the Holocaust an unprecedented painful burden --that of revealing to the world the excruciating and most humiliating experiences of their lives. It is our goal to present herein a balanced view and representation of the Jewish and non-Jewish Holocaust as well as, in as much as possible, to present some "inside" stories, from Jewish and non-Jewish survivors alike, that were able to overcome the ghettos and the concentration camps of this incredible dark period in human history. The spirit of survival and defiance of many ordinary people was poignant beyond words transforming them, by their circumstances, from ordinary into extraordinary human beings
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- This website presents the documentation and the exhibition prepared by Tracing the Tracks" Project Group from Maria-Theresia-Highschool during the years 20032005. Both the exhibition and the documentation have since been continuously updated.
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- Silent Voices Speak is a non-profit organization dedicated to using art as a powerful vehicle for education and community building, and is devoted to arousing compassion, raising consciousness, and educating as many people as possible about the defining event of the twentieth century—the Holocaust—and its relation to social injustice in the present...
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- A website dedicated to non-governmental organizations fighting racism. Links to over 2,000 organizations in 113 countries, as well as sites on ethnic minorities, human rights, the disabled, and indigenous people.
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- On 10 June 1944, Oradour, a peaceful village in the centre of France, became
victim of a massacre committed by the SS-Panzer Division Das Reich. 642
innocent persons were killed and the village destroyed. Since that day, the
ruins of Oradour remind of the terrible crime. The Center of Remembrance of
Oradour, which welcomes 300,000 visitors every year, makes the history of
Oradour better known to the public and contributes to avoid that a massacre
of this kind ever happens again.
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