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2012-01-20

The Medical Society House (TLK) in Krakow will hold an official session to mark the 67th anniversary of the liberation of the Auchwitz-Birkenau camp and the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

On January 24th, 2012, Tuesday, at 4 pm, the official assembly of the Medical Society House will be staged at the Collegium Novum lecture hall of the Jagiellonian University, at 24 Golebia Street in Krakow. The assembly has been organized to mark the 67th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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The President of the Jagiellonian University Prof. Karol Musioł will open the ceremony while the meeting will be run by the Medical Society House President Prof. Igor Goscinski. This year, the ceremony has been organized by the Medical Society House in co-operation with the Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum, the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Jagiellonian University and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The program includes presentations by physicians and former prisoners of concentration camps: Wiktor Krzyzanowski and Tadeusz Smreczynski, who greatly contributed to the research in post-camp trauma and who have been extremely engaged in supporting former prisoners of concentration camps. Wiktor Krzyżanowski’s humanitarian involvement that has given his support to former prisoners and combatants has sparked many controversies in the media and has posed ethical questions regarding the healthcare for former prisoners. Smreczynski followed the same path of memory. After the end of WWII, this graduate of medical studies at the Jagiellonian University and former concentration camp prisoner in Mauthausen and Linz III became active in supporting survivors and he is one of those witnesses who understood the importance of giving testimonies so that this wartime hecatomb would never be forgotten. The next presentation that will follow will deal with the creative work by painters who were prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where they documented the realities of everyday life in the camp. The paintings by Mieczysław Kościelniak, Janina Tollik and Józef Bau will be discussed. The entire event will be highlighted by the recital by Maria Slawek and Piotr Rozanski from the Musical Academy in Krakow.

For more information visit the official website of Towarzystwo Lekarskie Krakowskie

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