Memoria [EN] No. 23 (08/2019) | Page 26

Award Ceremony:

If Not For

Those Ten…

On the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, another 10 volunteers were presented with an award in recognition of their services. This year’s recipients had assisted in projects such as event organisation, conservation, educational visits and transcription. The awards were announced by Monika Pastuszka-Nędza, Head of the Museum’s Volunteers Bureau, and presented by Director Piotr M. A. Cywiński. Volunteer Piotr Kondratowicz – who co-ordinates visits and internships for deaf apprentices at the Museum – movingly thanked the Museum on behalf of the “1 million Poles that speak Polish, but do not hear it.”