Current events/Statements

3 June 2010:
Plans for the New Exhibition in Auschwitz
For more than two years now an international expert commission, initiated and invited by the Auschwitz Memorial and State Museum, has been working on the concept of a new central exhibition for the memorial at the former German concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The survivors Noach Flug and Marian Turski are working on this new exhibition concept on behalf of the International Auschwitz Committee. Others involved in the preparations include Christoph Heubner, Vice President of the IAC, and the former director of the Dachau Memorial, Dr Barbara Distel. Now Barbara Distel presented her thoughts on the work of the international expert commission
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19 April 2010:
Kazimierz Smolen: A voice of the survivors
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10 April 2010:
IAC Newsletter No. 1
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28 March 2010:
The annihilation of the European Jews in Birkenau: French survivors of Auschwitz concentration camp call for the establishment of a permanent exhibition in the former extermination camp of Birkenau
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27 January 2010:
Noach Flug and Christoph Heubner present the President of Israel with the 'Gift of Remembrance' dedicated by the IAC to the 65th anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz
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26 January 2010:
Chancellor Angela Merkel holds Reception in the Bundeskanzleramt
Speech given by German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel
Speech by Noach Flug, President of the IAC

26 January 2010:
Black and one Reminder of Red
Unknown drawings from Auschwitz on show at the German Resistance Memorial Center
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15 January 2010:
65st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp: 'Gift of Remembrance'
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29 October 2009:
Seminar in Budapest
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28 October 2009:
“Book of Remembrance”
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10 October 2009:
Moscow: "Together we must oppose any attempts to play down fascism"
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26-30 June 2009:
Prague: “Holocaust Era Assets Conference”
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Noach Flug's speech

25 June 2009:
Invitation:
Women's Voices In Hungarian Holocaust Literature: The book “Sós kávé” (“Salty Coffee”)
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17 March 2009:
Presidium of the International Auschwitz Committee met with the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic and the current President of the European Council Mirek Topolánek
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16 March 2009:
Felix Kolmer was awarded the Order of Merit First Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
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February 2009:
Article about Alex Deutsch in "OS"-Magazine, no. 2, February 2009:
“I summoned up the courage to avoid revenge and hatred”
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5 February 2009:
"Human gesture towards the victims": IAC thanks Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel
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27 January 2009:
"The legacy that we are passing on today is also the legacy of European resistance." Statement by Pierre Gouffault
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26 January 2009:
"The Survivors' Bequest": Preserve Remembrance – Conserve authentic Places – Assume Responsibility
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25 January 2009:
Meeting of the Presidents of the international camp committees from 24 to 27 January in Berlin
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22 January 2009:
"Shoes, Bread ... Living on in Auschwitz": "A deeply impressive and moving exhibition" opened by the International Auschwitz Committee in Berlin
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9 December 2008:
The International Auschwitz Committee marked the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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17 November 2008:
International Auschwitz Council convened in Warsaw. The session dealt especially with the rapid decay of the remaining structures in Birkenau
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30 October 2008:
Munich's municipal transport company (MVG) presented a bus to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial
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25 July 2008:
"Remember to Think" – New publication of the International Auschwitz Committee
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20 July 2008:
Human rights – The International Auschwitz Committee's Europe-wide poster campaign
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16 June 2008:
Volkswagen AG presented a T5 Caravelle bus to the International Auschwitz Committee at the Auschwitz Memorial on 16 June 2008
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7 April 2008:
Deutsche Welle: Holocaust Deportation Exhibit Denied Access to Berlin Central
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28 January 2008:
United Nations: International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
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25 January 2008:
(Article from "Sueddeutsche Zeitung")
Holocaust Memorial Day: Sunday's speeches, Monday's actions
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27 September 2007:
(Press Release)
Julius Kurt Goldstein died
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25 May 2007:
Protest in Front of the Embassy of Sudan
Translation: "In Auschwitz we had been waiting for the world to react --
Today Darfour is waiting..."

23 April 2007:
(Press Release)
General Assembly of the IAC:
"Role of the NPD is absolutely alarming"
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18 April 2007:
General Assembly of the IAC meets in Oswiecim/Auschwitz
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13 April 2007:
Numerous visitors see Ronnie Goldstein-van Cleef exhibition
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29 March 2007:
EU President receives delegation of the IAC
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23 March 2007:
Book on the work of the IAC published in Japan
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18 February 2007:
Film Festival in Berlin: 10 to 19 February 2007
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29 January 2007:
Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Prague Senate
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29 January 2007:
United Nations, Geneva:
Programme of International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
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27 January 2007:
"The immense grief of our hearts"
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13 December 2006:
Dispute about Memorial. Auschwitz - a Museum?
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12 September 2006:
Ahmedinejad invited to Auschwitz
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16 June 2006:
Germany’s Federal Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble receives the IAC Presidium
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15 June 2006:
(Press Release)
German Federal President Horst Köhler decorates Noach Flug with the German order "Great Cross of Merit"
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29 May 2006:
(Press Release)
International Auschwitz Council newly constituted
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24 May 2006:
(Press Release)
Pope Visits Auschwitz on 28 May
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7 April 2006:
Invitation to a film presentation and discussion
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20 March 2006:
Response of the IAC to the Sierra project in Pulheim
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27 January 2006:
61st Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz –
1st International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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26 January 2006:
(Press release)
Kofi Annan meets Auschwitz survivors
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27 January 2006:
61st Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz –
1st International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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13 October 2005:
Article published in "Neues Deutschland", on 13 October 2005 
"The centre of the world’s conscience" - The Central Office of the International
Auschwitz Committee has worked in Berlin for two years now -
By Ingrid Heinisch
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04 October 2003:
Article published in "Die Welt", on 4 October 2003.
Talk -- because the words are missing
By Iris Hanika
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