It has been 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, which has become the symbol of genocide on unprecedented scale caused by Nazi Germans during World War II. According to two thirds of the Poles, memory about Auschwitz-Birkenau has a universal scope – it is important for every person. One in ten think that it is important for victims of concentration camps, or other people prosecuted during the war, and their families. Similar proportion of interviewees believe that it is important for elderly people who remember the war. Few interviewees emphasise its importance mostly for young people and post-war generations. Indications for particular nations are much more rare: six in a hundred pointed out the Poles as a nation for which remembrance of Auschwitz-Birkenau is of particular importance and three in a hundred pointed out the Jews.

Almost all interviewees say that for them personally memory of Auschwitz is something important. This attitude hasn’t changed in the last twenty years.