A record 1.72 million people visited Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2015, 70 years after the Soviets liberated the former Nazi German death camp, according to the museum at the site in southern Poland, AFP reports.
Museum director Piotr Cywinski said in a statement Monday that a visit to the camp was not just "a history lesson" but also a moment of reflection "on our own responsibility for the state of our world nowadays".
In 2014, the site drew 1.53 million visitors.