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Entrance to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum. Image by Pimke. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Auschwitz museum develops online lessons for visitors

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum has launched online lessons to prepare would-be visitors to the memorial site, many of whom today know almost nothing about World War II or Nazism.

The site of the former death camp has seen the number of visitors rise for years, reaching a record 1.5 million last year. But at the same time museum officials say visitors increasingly know less and less about the war or what happened at Auschwitz, where more than one million people, mainly Jews, were murdered.

The museum announced the online lessons on Tuesday. They are in English and Polish.

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Online: http//en.auschwitz.org/lekcja/12_miejsce_pamieci/

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