Hungarian tourists penalized for stealing ‘souvenir’ bricks from Auschwitz – video

According to the Polish police, they admitted that they tried to steal bricks from the ruins of a former crematorium. The 30-year-old woman and the 36-year-old man were charged with theft of a cultural asset. Thus, they were fined 1,500 zlotych (346 EUR) and received a suspended sentence of one year jail – reported hvg.hu.

They just wanted to bring home some souvenirs

The two Hungarian tourists visited the former Nazi German death camp on Saturday. However, during their tour, they tried to steal some bricks from a former crematorium. In fact, the whole camp is a World Heritage Site since 1979, so

all objects on its premises are protected.

The Hungarian couple’s wrongdoing was spotted by other visitors who notified the security. After that, the police was called on the scene. Regional police press officer Mateusz Drwal told Polish news agency PAP that after the couple admitted their deed they added that they just wanted to bring home some souvenirs. However,

they did not realize the consequences of their action. 

They were each fined 1,500 zlotych (346 EUR which is more than 110 thousand HUF) and given a suspended sentence of one year jail.

This was not the first time

In fact, Auschwitz-Birkenau was the biggest Nazi German death camp where more than 1 million Jews and 100,000 non-Jewish Roma, Soviet and Polish POWs were exterminated brutally between 1940 and 1945.

In fact, this was not the first time somebody tried to take home some ‘souvenirs’ from the former death camp. In 2015 two British teenagers were arrested because they were suspected to have stolen artifacts. Tartefactscaught digging in the ground in an area where there used to be the barracks for storing the personal items of the prisoners. Marcus Dell and Ben Thompson both 17 in 2015 were on a school trip and