Poland – Britain is being asked to donate to restore the crumbling Auschwitz death camp German Nazis built in occupied Poland during World War II, custodians say.
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Jacek Kastelaniec, director general of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, is pressing the British government to make good on Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s promise to contribute to a $175 million endowment fund. The preservationists hope for a $14.5 million British contribution.
The concentration camp where 1 million Jews were slaughtered by the Germans is decaying so fast, conservationists are calling on Britain to help save it.
“The conservationists say we need to start work in the next two years if we are to avert irreparable decay,” Kastelaniec told The Times.
Located in southern Poland, Auschwitz was built on boggy ground between two rivers. High groundwater and bad drainage has rotted its foundations. Walls at the camp are blistering and beginning to lean, roof frames are buckling and plasterwork and wall paintings are flaking.
No we don’t need another hitler! No way we don’t give them a penney
NO WAY!!!
This place was built by our gandparents doing forced labor. Let those cursed Polacks now use their own to rebuild it.
The first two comments are posted by ignorant and hateful people.
Poland wants to preserve Auschwitz as a reminder of, and a monument to, pure evil. They want the world to remember what happened there so that the world strives to never let it happen again.