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Australia supports the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation
Australia has joined the project of creating the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation’s Perpetual Fund. The donation will be 500,000 Australian dollars.
“The Australian Government recognizes and supports the valuable work of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation”, wrote Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard to the chairman of the Foundation Council Prof. Władysław Bartoszewski.
“I am confident that the ongoing conservation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau site will continue to encourage education and understanding to ensure such atrocities are never repeated”, added Prime Minister Gillard.
The aim of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation is to finance a long-term conservation plan for the site and remains of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. The overriding value lying behind the project is the maximal preservation of the authenticity and legibility of the former camp space for future generations.
In 2011 Auschwitz Memorial was visited by 14,200 Australians.
