| The death toll given by the Soviets was 4 million | | | | camp', it can bring misleading that Poles were |
| people. This number was written on the plaques in | | | | initiators of this concentration camp. To avoid |
| the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. | | | | that, the government of Poland started a |
| Most of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp victims | | | | campaign in 2004 against falsification of history |
| were Jews from almost every country in Europe | | | | and two years later a campaign for changing the |
| and Poles who died in gas chambers or in the | | | | name by UNESCO. |
| result of forced labor, starvation or 'medical' | | | | As the result of polish activity on the 28th of |
| experiments. The camp was started by Nazi | | | | June, 2007, the United Nations World Heritage |
| Germany formally for polish poltical prisoners. But | | | | Committee announced that the official name |
| soon it showed it's real aim and became an | | | | "Auschwitz Concentration Camp" was changed |
| implement to the Nazi policy of spoliation, | | | | into "Auschwitz Birkenau. German Nazi |
| degradation and extermination of the Jews. | | | | Concentration and Extermination Camp". |
| As many people use the expression 'Polish death | | | | |