Following text you can read either in Polish, English or in Hebrew on a sign board next to the entrance to the visitor center of the museum Oswiecim-Brzezinka.
"On outskirts of the small town of Oswiecim, lies a place that throughout the world has become a symbol of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust – AUSCHWITZ.
German forces occupying Poland established a concentration camp in 1940 on a site of former military barrcks, they called the place Auschwitz and it was soon expanded into three main camps: Auschitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau and Auschwitz III-Monowitz and over 40 subcamps.
Beginning in 1942, however, Auschwitz became the setting for the most massive murder campaign in history, when the Nazis put into operation their plan to destroy the entire Jewish population of Europe. The great majority of Jews who where deported to Auschwitz, men, women and children – where sent immediately upon arrival to death in the gas chambers of Birkenau.
When the SS realized that the end of the war was near, they attempted to remove the evidence of atrocities committed here. They dismantled the gas chambers, crematoria, and other buildings, burned documents and evacuated all those prisoners who could walk to the interior of Germany.
Those who where not evacuated were liberated by the Red Army on January 27, 1945 ."
In 1947 the Polish Parliament established the State Museum of Osiecim-Brzezinka. The camps where recognized by the UNESCO as World Heritage Site in 1979 .
"On outskirts of the small town of Oswiecim, lies a place that throughout the world has become a symbol of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust – AUSCHWITZ.
German forces occupying Poland established a concentration camp in 1940 on a site of former military barrcks, they called the place Auschwitz and it was soon expanded into three main camps: Auschitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau and Auschwitz III-Monowitz and over 40 subcamps.
Beginning in 1942, however, Auschwitz became the setting for the most massive murder campaign in history, when the Nazis put into operation their plan to destroy the entire Jewish population of Europe. The great majority of Jews who where deported to Auschwitz, men, women and children – where sent immediately upon arrival to death in the gas chambers of Birkenau.
When the SS realized that the end of the war was near, they attempted to remove the evidence of atrocities committed here. They dismantled the gas chambers, crematoria, and other buildings, burned documents and evacuated all those prisoners who could walk to the interior of Germany.
Those who where not evacuated were liberated by the Red Army on January 27, 1945 ."
In 1947 the Polish Parliament established the State Museum of Osiecim-Brzezinka. The camps where recognized by the UNESCO as World Heritage Site in 1979 .
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