US man charged with trying to steal item from Auschwitz

A police official in Poland said an American visitor to the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp attempted to steal a metal part of the rail tracks where prisoners were unloaded.

Malgorzata Jurecka, a police spokeswoman in the southern Polish town of Oswiecim, said Sunday that the 37year-old man was charged with attempted theft of an item of cultural importance.