Visitors in the museum at the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland. File photoWARSAW, June 20Poland opposes the fact that excursions of Israeli youth to the museum of Auschwitz were accompanied by armed guards, Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland Marcin Przydacz said on the air of RMF FM radio station. Previously, the museum on the territory of the former Nazi concentration camp organized excursions for Israeli youth. Each group was accompanied by armed guards from Israel.
Anti-Semitic graffiti was found on the territory of Auschwitz»These excursions were suspended during the pandemic. At this stage, they have not been resumed. We believe that this should be regulated in the agreement between Poland and Israel. The first element is the presence on each excursion of an officer with firearms, with live ammunition, which, supposedly, should protect the group from the dangers that threaten them in Poland,» Przydach said. He believes that Poland is a fairly safe country and there is no need to guard every Israeli excursion to Auschwitz. «This, of course, can be explained in some specific cases, but Poland is not such a dangerous country that each group must be guarded by an officer with weapons. We believe that this should be settled in a civilized way, in which specific cases such consent will be given On the other hand, we believe that among Israeli youth an opinion is being created about Poland as an unsafe country, even voices appear that it is an anti-Semitic country. We would like Israeli youth to also have the opportunity to contact Polish youth So that they get to know Polish youth, see how they relate to Polish-Jewish history,» he added. Auschwitz-Birkenau (in the Polish city of Oswiecim) was the largest and longest-lived Nazi concentration camp, so it became one of the main symbols of the Holocaust . About 1.4 million people, of which about 1.1 million were Jews, died at Auschwitz in 1941-1945. The camp was liberated on January 27, 1945 by the troops of the Red Army. In 1947, a museum was created on the site of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. In 1979 it was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. 
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