Auschwitz Museum attracts over 2 m visitors in 2018

Over 2.15 million people visited the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz, in southern Poland in 2018, the Auschwitz Museum wrote on its website on Friday. This is almost 50,000 more visitors than in 2017. Poles constituted the largest visitor group (405,000), followed by Britons (281,000), Americans (136,000), Italians (116,000), Spaniards (95,000), Germans (76,000). The past year saw an especially marked rise in visitors from Portugal (with an increase of 36 percent), the Museum reported. The number of visitors from China and Israel dropped by 23 percent and 21 percent, respectively.