Poland – More than 1.2 million tourists visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in 2007, the highest number ever, spokesman Jarosław Mensfelt has said.
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Most visitors to the museum, which acts as a monument of the Holocaust, were Poles, who amounted to 465 thousand. The other 755 thousand were from abroad, with the highest number of groups coming from the UK, then Germany and the US respectively.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau opened in July 1947 in the area previously occupied by the concentration camp of Auschwitz in the southern town of Oświęcim. At least 1.1 million were killed there, mainly of Jewish origin, but also Poles, Gypsies, Soviet POWs and other prisoners. [polskieradio]
“Considering how much they contributed towards its creation they should get a disount on tickets.”
I assumed by “contributed” you mean by being the first inmates there and making up around 100,000 of the deaths.
Anon. 8:26AM. I’m as christian as you are. (hopefully). I do not, for a moment forget –or fail to live with the pain in my heart– for what they did to KLAL YISROEL, including my grandparents and other relatives. But we have to be pragmatic. There is a [slight] hope that the young generation’s minds have not been poisoned to the extent that their forefathers’ was. We’re not yet dancing –or partying– with each other.
biGwheeel said…
why be so harsh. I would give the benefit of the doubt. I believe in repentance. Possibly, the new generation of poles are better than their predecessors.
January 8, 2008 12:16 AM
How christian of you to be so forgiving.
As for me and my countless relatives butchered by the Poles and Germans, NEVER FORGIVE, NEVER FORGET, NEVER AGAIN!
why be so harsh. I would give the benefit of the doubt. I believe in repentance. Possibly, the new generation of poles are better than their predecessors.
I guess they want to learn how to do a better job next time
Considering how much they contributed towards its creation they should get a disount on tickets.