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Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Museum and memorial in Oświęcim, Poland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (Polish: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau)[3] is a museum on the site of the Nazi German Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland.
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Established | April 1946[1] |
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Location | Oświęcim, Poland |
Visitors | 2.3 million (2019)[2] |
Director | Piotr Cywiński |
Website | http://auschwitz.org/en/ |
Official name | Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940–1945) |
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Criteria | Cultural: (vi) |
Reference | 31 |
Inscription | 1979 (3rd Session) |
Area | 191.97 ha (474.4 acres) |
Coordinates | 50°2′20″N 19°10′30″E |
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The site includes the main concentration camp at Auschwitz I and the remains of the concentration and extermination camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Both were developed and run by Nazi Germany during its occupation of Poland in 1939–1945. The Polish government has preserved the site as a research centre and in memory of the 1.1 million people who died there, including 960,000 Jews, during World War II and the Holocaust.[4] It became a World Heritage Site in 1979. Piotr Cywiński is the museum's director.[5]