Record 1.4M Visited Auschwitz Last Year

Auschwitz had a record number of visitors last year, with more than 1.4 million people visiting the onetime Nazi death camp. Most visitors were from Poland, but the site also saw many American, British, Italian, Israeli, German, and French tourists. Auschwitz-Birkenau is one of the most-visited Holocaust memorials in Europe, and increased tourism is a boon for Holocaust education—but it's hard on buildings already in disrepair after decades, the AP reports. (More Auschwitz stories.)