Władysław Bartoszewski, International Auschwitz Council

The Council cooperates with ministers, local authorities, and heads of the Monuments of Extermination regarding their protection and management. Bartoszewski is a statesman, politician, historian and writer, and was also a prisoner at Auschwitz, as well as a soldier in the Home Army (AK). He was Foreign Affairs Minister first in 1995 and again in 2001.