Morawiecki was speaking on the day that German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz, today a memorial site in southern Poland.
The Mauthausen-Gusen camp was located near the Austrian city of Linz and was set up before World War II.
Morawiecki said: “Every place where German concentration and extermination camps were once built should be exceptionally respected – so that the past will be a lesson for future generations.”
He added: “This is also the main reason why Poland, together with other states and former prisoners, requests the government of Austria to purchase the neglected land which once included the former Gusen concentration camp. Every other prisoner died in it ... in total citizens of at least 26 countries.”
Earlier this year, Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Culture Minister Piotr Gliński spoke to Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz about setting up an institution to commemorate victims at the Gusen sub-camp.
Gliński was among 9,000 people from over 20 countries who in May marked the 74th anniversary of the liberation of Mauthausen-Gusen.
The camp was liberated by American forces in May 1945, shortly before the end of the war.
Gliński said at the time that the camp’s victims included 27,000 Poles.
(pk/gs)
Source: PAP