Auschwitz Birkenau
German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)
Factors affecting the property in 1993*
- Commercial development
- Other Threats:
Threat to the integrity of the property (not specified - supermarket project?)
International Assistance: requests for the property until 1993
Total amount approved : 0 USD
Missions to the property until 1993**
Conservation issues presented to the World Heritage Committee in 1993
[Oral report by ICOMOS and the Secretariat]
Summary of the interventions
Decisions adopted by the Committee in 1993
17 COM X
SOC: Auschwitz Concentration Camp (Poland)
Auschwitz Concentration Camp (Poland)
Following remarks made by the Observer of Tunisia, the Committee recommended that the Centre examines the integrity of this property inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1979 and informs the next session of the Bureau.
No draft Decision
Poland
* :
The threats indicated are listed in alphabetical order; their order does not constitute a classification according to the importance of their impact on the property.
Furthermore, they are presented irrespective of the type of threat faced by the property, i.e. with specific and proven imminent danger (“ascertained danger”) or with threats which could have deleterious effects on the property’s Outstanding Universal Value (“potential danger”).
** : All mission reports are not always available electronically.
