The Hungarian nationals were detained after other visitors at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp spotted the pair loading bricks from the ruins of a crematorium into a bag, Polish police said Monday. Security officers were alerted and police were called to the scene. "The man and woman were charged with theft of a cultural asset. They both admitted to wrongdoing," regional police press officer Mateusz Drwal told Polish news agency PAP. Read more: 4 out of 10 German students don't know what Auschwitz was 
 
 The 30-year-old woman and 36-year-old man were each fined €346 ($405) and handed a one-year prison sentence on probation. "They explained that they had wanted to bring back a souvenir and didn't realize the consequences of their actions," Drwal said. Author: Max Zander, Ille Simon 
 
 
 
 Notorious concentration camp 
 
 Auschwitz-Birkenau is one of several death camps built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during the Second World War. The Nazis murdered an estimated 1 million Jews there between 1940 and 1945. More than 100,000 others, including non-Jewish Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and resistance fighters, were also killed at the camp. It was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979. All objects on its premises are protected.
– Two Hungarians have been convicted of trying to steal bricks during a tour of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. Per USA Today, the tourists told authorities they wanted to take the bricks home as souvenirs. Polish police reportedly said that officials were alerted to the pair's misdeeds when they were pointed out by their fellow tourists. The man and woman were charged with theft of a cultural asset, fined the equivalent of $405 each, and sentenced to a suspended sentence of one year, per DW.com. Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp constructed by the Nazi regime and estimates put the number of Jews killed in the complex outside Krakow between 1940 and 1945 at around 1 million. Auschwitz has been protected as an UNESCO World Heritage site since 1979.