A Polish WWII Auschwitz Cross with a ribbon. The medal features a silver Greek cross with wide arms. The obverse shows barbed wire and camp poles; the year 1939 on the left, and 1945 on the right arm. In the center, there is a red enameled triangle with the letter P, as worn by Polish nationals imprisoned in the camps. The reverse bears the inscription Peoples Republic of Poland to prisoners of Nazi concentration camps in Polish. Was instituted on 14 March 1985, and was a Polish decoration awarded to honor survivors of Nazi German concentration camps, including Auschwitz, a German name for the Polish town Oswiecim, where the camps were built by Nazi Germans.