Over 2 million visitors at the Auschwitz Memorial in 2016 | Auschwitz-Birkenau

Two million fifty-three thousand people from all over the world visited in 2016 the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz and Auschwitz II-Birkenau which is protected by the Museum. This is a record number in the history of the Memorial which this year will mark the 70th anniversary of its creation.