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Netanyahu to receive Auschwitz plans

August 26, 2009 15:12
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ByJessica Elgot, Jessica Elgot

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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will be presented with the original architectural plans for Auschwitz-Birkenau, to keep at Yad Vashem, during his trip to Germany.

Mr Netanyahu will attend a special ceremony in Berlin where the German newspaper Bild will present the plans to him, along with Yad Vashem chairman Avner Shalev and the director of the Yad Vashem archives, Haim Gertner.

The Israeli Prime Minister is in Germany to hold talks with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Germany was reported this week to have offered to host a peace conference for Israel and the Palestinians if agreement is reached with the Obama administration on the format.

The Auschwitz blueprints were uncovered in 2008 and the editor-in-chief of Bild, Kai Diekmann, who acquired the prints, decided that Yad Vashem was the most appropriate venue for them.