29 May 2006:
(Press Release)

International Auschwitz Council newly constituted

The International Auschwitz Council appointed for a period of six years by the Polish government held its constituent assembly in Warsaw on 29 May 2006. The Polish Prime Minister Kazimir Marzinkiewicz handed the certificates of appointment over to the 24 members of the Council and underlined the outstanding significance of the Council in the international as well the national debate.
The Council consists of representatives from Poland, Israel, France, Great Britain, the USA and Germany. The International Auschwitz Committee is represented by the IAC President Noach Flug and the Vice-Presidents Kazimierz Albin and Christoph Heubner.
For the first time the Council includes the Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Sara Blomfield from Washington, the Chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, Romani Rose from Heidelberg, and Leszek Szuster, Director of the International Youth Meeting Centre in Oswiecim/Auschwitz. The Council members re-elected the former Polish Foreign Minister and Auschwitz survivor Prof. Wladyslaw Bartoszewski as Chairman of the Council.

Berlin, 9 June 2006
Christoph Heubner, IAC Vice-President

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