The Auschwitz museum at the site of the former Nazi German death camp in southern Poland said Monday it had launched online Holocaust awareness programs in Arabic and Farsi. The new education programs are an attempt to target countries in which Holocaust denial is commonplace.

"We want to address groups of people who often have little knowledge of this subject or who even advocate revisionist views," museum spokesman Pawel Sawicki told Agence France Presse. Statistically, there are hardly any visitors from Arab countries or from Iran, said museum director Andrzey Kacorzyk. "But it is especially in those countries that the Holocaust is doubted or used as political capital."

Auschwitz and the museum stands as a symbol of the entire history of the Holocaust and the whole system of concentration camps. It symbolizes the the high-water mark of evil.​ Because the Nazi burned camp records as the Soviet Army approached, the exact number of people murdered at Auschwitz is unknown, but estimates range from 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 -- the vast majority of them were Jews.

Jewish children made up the largest group of those deported to the camp. They were usually sent there along with adults, beginning in early 1942, as part of the “final solution of the Jewish question”—the total destruction of the Jewish population of Europe. Incapable of labor, these children were sent from the unloading ramp to the gas chambers and put to death there​.

The multimedia campaign includes graphics, photos of the camp, as well as video interviews with survivors all teaching the horrors of the Holocaust. A full 40 percent of Israeli Arabs, for example, believe the Holocaust never occurred.