36th meeting of the Auschwitz International Council

AJC Representative in Czechia, Dr. Tomáš Kraus, attended the second session of the newly appointed International Auschwitz Council that convened in Oswiecim, Poland, on November 23-24. The Auschwitz State Museum presented a report on its own recent activities as well as information on the development of a new visitor center at the State Museum in Treblinka and plans for a new museum at the site of the former German Nazi labor and concentration camp in Plaszow (now a neighborhood of Kraków). Council members also visited the construction site of a new visitor center at Auschwitz I (the so-called main camp).