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Australia will contribute $500,000 to help preserve the World War II concentration camp sites, Auschwitz and Birkenau, in southern Poland.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard says the camps continue to serve as a solemn reminder of the terrible crimes perpetrated against millions of people during the war.
The ongoing preservation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site was important to ensure the horrific events of the Holocaust were never repeated again, Ms Gillard said on Thursday.
Ms Gillard said Australia had joined the community of nations in contributing to the perpetual fund of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.
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"The intention of the fund is simple, to ensure that the foundation will never want for money so that Auschwitz-Birkenau will always be conserved," she said at the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne.
"We make this gift because Auschwitz is a place and a story for all humankind and for all time
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