Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (Polish: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau) is a museum on the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland.
Entrance to Auschwitz I, 2014 | |
| Established | April 1946 |
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| Location | Oświęcim, Poland |
| Visitors | 2.3 million (2019) |
| Director | Piotr Cywiński |
| Website | http://auschwitz.org/en/ |
UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
| 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 |
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. It became a World Heritage Site in 1979. Piotr Cywiński is the museum's director.
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