jul 17, 1990 - Plaques Changed at Auschwitz-Birkenau (From 4 Million to 1.5 million) AP News 1990, July 17

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WARSAW, Poland (AP) _ Plaques have been removed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp memorial that inflated the total number of victims while understating the preponderance of Jews, the daily Gazeta Wyborcza said Tuesday.

It said the plaques were taken down in line with findings by the Auschwitz State Museum that the number of victims in the two camps in southern Poland actually was 1.1 million to 1.5 million. Of that number, at least 960,000 were Jews, the museum concluded.

Previously, plaques in front of the ″International Monument to Victims of Fascism″ spoke of 4 million victims. Poles, not Jews, were listed first among the victimized peoples.

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