The Auschwitz-Birkenau (Oświęcim-Brzezinka) death camp museum has been entered on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Several hundred thousand people visit it every year. During the Second World War, the Nazis murdered Jews, Poles, Romany People and Russians in the camp. 90% of those who died were Jews deported from all the countries of the occupied Europe.
The entry to the Auschwitz Holocaust museum is through the gates immortalised in many films and photographs, inscribed “Arbeit Macht Frei”. Further, you can see a dozen or so brick buildings in which the prisoners lived. Horrifying exhibitions of objects looted from the imprisoned and murdered people have been arranged in the prison cell blocks.
In the neighbouring Birkenau everything was done on a larger scale. Here is where the largest concentration camp was situated, most of the mass murder devices were created here. There are no exhibitions – the condition of the camp was kept without changes. It is opened to visitors.
