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Photograph album of the ceremony for the unveiling of the International Memorial to the Victims of the Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. A commemorative album for the opening of the memorial at Auschwitz on 16 April 1967, an important stage in its transition to an international memorial site.Situated at the western end of the railway lines that cross the camp, the memorial remains a central part of the Auschwitz complex. The large granite memorial was designed by the Italian architects Andrea and Pietro Cascella. Approximately 200,000 people attended the unveiling, including Polish state officials, the East German and Italian foreign ministers, and prisoner organisations.The first two photographs show the memorial, the third the crowd bound in by the barbed wire, and the fourth the Polish prime minister Józef Cyrankiewicz laying a tribute. The remainder show the attendees eating lunch, food stalls, and chefs preparing the food. Given this, the album was presumably produced for the organizers of the catering."Abstract in form and vague in its message, the monument and the events surrounding its unveiling in April 1967 certainly furthered the memorial site's growing international character and testified to the waning relevance of a traditional Polish-national commemorative idiom at Auschwitz. At the same time, however, the Birkenau monument failed to specify or acknowledge explicitly the suffering and death of Jews as Auschwitz, and therefore took its place in the continuum of commemora

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