Bearing in mind this historical heritage, it is Poland’s responsibility to take care of these Holocaust sites.

This represents a complex challenge. However, thanks to the establishment of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, which received significant financial contributions from numerous countries, large-scale conservation efforts have been initiated. The numbers speak for themselves: last year, more than 1.4 million people from all over the world visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. Most of the guests were young people for whom Holocaust remembrance constitutes an important element of their historical consciousness. Keeping this memory alive and paying tribute to the victims of the largest genocide in human history is our international duty.

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