Official says 1,000 people booked tours on first day as site of former Nazi concentration camp aims to pull itself out of financial crisis brought on by virus restrictions

Holocaust memorial site, where 1.1 million people, mostly European Jews, were killed, says its '2020 budget has collapsed' as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic

Social media has become an important tool for the memorial museum, which hopes to teach a wider audience about the horrors of the Nazi genocide

Memorial and camp to remain shut until at least March 25; March of the Living already postponed

No cases have yet emerged in Poland, though officials say they are likely to appear soon amid global spread of pathogen

Company's removal of items, including anti-Semitic children's book 'The Poisonous Mushroom,' comes after criticism by the Auschwitz museum

'Hunters' starring Al Pacino particularly slammed for scene in which Auschwitz inmates forced to kill each other in chess game; creator says show never purported to be documentary

Holocaust memorial organization condemns Jeff Bezos, online marketplace for selling World War II-era anti-Semitic children's books in German, English

A delegation led by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation brings back former prisoners following a massive January 27 event marking the camp's liberation

More than 1.1 million Jews were murdered in camp during the Holocaust; contribution in addition to $15 million donated by the US for its upkeep