A record 2.152 million visitors from all over the world visited the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2018, 50,000 more than in 2017, the previous record year. Friday the museum site. About 80% of these visitors were accompanied by one of the 320 museum educator guides speaking about 20 languages. "Such a large percentage of those who decide to experience Auschwitz history during guided group tours is of great importance," commented museum director Piotr Cywinski in a statement.
"A visit so difficult". This allows "not only to acquire deeper knowledge and understanding, but also to dialogue, to ask questions about this tragic story," he added. "No written form or electronic device will replace human contact during such a difficult visit, both from the point of view of information and emotions". Some 405,000 Poles visited the site last year, followed by 281,000 Britons, 136,000 Americans, 116,000 Italians, 95,000 Spaniards, 76,000 Germans, 69,000 French and 65,000 Israelis.
1.1 million people killed in the camp. The Camp Museum website has been visited more than 27 million times, while some 275,000 people follow the museum on Twitter and 265,000 on Facebook. During the Second World War, about 1.1 million people, including nearly one million Jews, were killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, located in southern occupied Poland, between 1940 and The other victims were mostly non-Jewish Poles, gypsies and Soviet prisoners.