New exhibition TRACES OF LIFE, TRACES OF THE CRIME: AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU is displayed at ZIH (exhibit hall at Blue Tower). Powerful photographs of Miroslaw Sadecki show the current views and exhibits at the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau camp.

Memorial de la Shoah, Institute Francaise and ZIH invite to Prtofessor Serge Klarsfeld's lecture "Vichy et les Juifs" to be held on February 17th, 6.30 p.m.at the Muranow Movie Theater. The lecture will be preceeded by a show of Laurent Heyemann's film "Rene Bousquet ou le Grand Arrangement" based on the life of a minister at the Vichy government at the time French Jews were deported to death camps.

On January 27th, the Internationa Holocaust Remembrance Day, Professor Feliks Tych, historian and former director of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, has been invited to deliver a speech at the German Parliament. January 27 was established the Remembrance Day on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz German Nazi concentration and death camp. Following his lecture Professor Tych with the President of the Budestag are holding a two hour workshop for a group of young students who has just visited ZIH.

The other speaker at the ceremony is Shimon Peres, the President of the State of Israel.

Gallery of Jewish is closed January 25th through February 7th, due to the theater production at ZIH. We apologie for the inconvenience