*Top ten countries*
1) Poland - 336,000 visitors
2) United Kingdom - 178,000 visitors
3) United States of America - 101,000 visitors
4) Italy - 71,000 visitors
5) Germany - 169,000 visitors
6) Israel - 57,000 visitors
7) Spain - 52,000 visitors
8) France - 45,000 visitors
9) South Korea - 45,000 visitors
10) Czech Republic - 41,000 visitors
These are the current visitor numbers that were recorded from 2001-2011.
taken from - http://en.auschwitz.org/m/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1153&Itemid=7
The number of people visiting the Auschwitz Memorial individually, who decide to join groups specially organised for them, increases as well. In 2013, this number reached 345 thousand, which is a 32 per cent raise in comparison to 2012. Each visit guided by an educator includes both parts of the former concentration camp: Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II—Birkenau.
“The number of visitors from Ireland has grown considerably (by 106 per cent)," remarks Magdalena Luranc, Head of the Visitors Service section. “The same or even slightly higher growth has been also noted among the visitors from Israel, Norway, Sweden, Great Britain and USA. However, last year’s lower attendance of Polish school groups hasn’t changed,” says Magdalena Luranc.
The said lower number of school groups is the reason of a considerable drop in the amount of Polish visitors during the last few years (2011 – 610 thousand, 2012 – 446 thousand, 2013 – 336 thousand). Even if influenced, among others, by demographic factors, it is mainly associated with the change in the core curriculum for history teaching at schools and the removal of subjects considering World War Two from the secondary school curriculum. So far, the attempts to create a common funding programme financing school trips to such an authentic Memorial have been unsuccessful.
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