UNESCO Revises Name For Auschwitz Camp
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — UNESCO has revised its name for the Auschwitz death camp in Poland to emphasize Nazi Germany’s role. It will be known as “Auschwitz-Birkenau. German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940–1945),” a spokesman for UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, Roni Amelan, said. Previously, the camp was listed on the U.N. agency’s registry as the “Auschwitz Concentration Camp.”
Poland, which was subjected to a brutal Nazi occupation, sought the name change to ensure that people understand it had no role in establishing or running the camp where the Nazis killed more than 1 million people, most of them Jews. The camp was made a World Heritage Site by the U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization in 1979.
