Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Entrance to Auschwitz I, 2014
Map
EstablishedApril 1946[1]
LocationOświęcim, Poland
Visitors2.3 million (2019)[2]
DirectorPiotr Cywiński
Websitehttp://auschwitz.org/en/
Official nameAuschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940–1945)
Includes
  1. Auschwitz
  2. Birkenau
CriteriaCultural: (vi)
Reference31
Inscription1979 (3rd Session)
Area191.97 ha (474.4 acres)
Coordinates50°2′20″N 19°10′30″E / 50.03889°N 19.17500°E / 50.03889; 19.17500

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.

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]

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  3. ^ "Copyright". Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

    "Copyright" (in Polish). Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau.

  4. ^ For the figures, see Piper, Franciszek (2000). Długoborski, Wacław; Piper, Franciszek (eds.). Auschwitz, 1940–1945. Central Issues in the History of the Camp. Vol. III: Mass Murder. Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. p. 230. ISBN 978-8385047872. OCLC 929235229.
  5. ^ "Distinction of the Special Prize of the European Civil Rights Prize of the Sinti and Roma for Piotr M. A. Cywiński". Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.