President Obama stepped in it

For many Americans, Jan Karski, a Polish courier who escaped occupied Poland in 1942 to spread the horrible truth about the Holocaust to the Western World, is an unknown figure of World Word II.  Alex Storozynski, President of the Kosciuszko Foundation, summarizes the story of Karski in his recent article at Huffington Post.  

Twelve years after his passing, President Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jan Karski during the ceremony at Washington, DC.  Jan Karski is already recognized as The Righteous Among The Nations at Yad Vashem along with over 6,000 Poles who saved many Jews during the war.

Shockingly, President Obama's remarks during the ceremony about the "Polish death camp", sent waves of outrage throughout the Polish community living abroad and Poles in Poland.  Even though, the Whitehouse apologized for the mistake, the damage was done.  For years, Western media is basically trying hard to change the history by using the incorrect naming convention for the German Nazi death camps operated in Poland during the WWII.  The influence of the media misinformation, is slowly working its poison throughout the American society.

To officially clear any inconsistencies, the proper name for the death camps was approved by UNESCO.  Wiki article explains the correct naming:

Concerns about the use of the term Polish death camp led the Polish government to request that UNESCO change the official name of Auschwitz from "Auschwitz Concentration Camp" to "former Nazi German concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau"^{[13][14][15][16][17]} in order to make clearer that the concentration camp was built and operated by Nazi Germany. On 28 June 2007 at its meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand, the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO changed the name of the camp to "Auschwitz Birkenau. German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)."^[18][19] Previously, some media, including Der Spiegel in Germany, had called the camp "Polish".^[20] The New York Times regularly refers to Auschwitz as Polish rather than German.^[21]

Polish-American organizations fight with that misinformation every time a major newspaper or a TV station incorrectly use the death camp name.  However, for some unknown reason, the "Polish death camp" name is used more and more frequently in articles and publications.  Let's not allow this blatant mistake to shadow the real culprits behind the Holocaust - the Nazi Germany.   

Remember, over 2 million Poles died in the WW2 alongside 3 million Polish Jews.  The numbers speak for themselves.