A Polish court has fined an Israeli teenager who admitted to urinating on a memorial at the site of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

The 19-year-old man, who was identified only as Zeev K., committed the act in late March and was arrested the same day but released after admitting to it.

'The court found the accused guilty as charged and imposed a fine of 5,000 zloty (1,160 euros, $1,350),' Daria Pichorz from the district court in the southern city of Krakow said.

A 19-year-old man, who was identified only as Zeev K., urinated on a memorial at the site of former Nazi death camp

The memorial in question (pictured) is located between the ruins of the two crematoriums at the former death camp

Pichorz said that Zeev K. was not present for the verdict by a regional court in the nearby town of Oswiecim where Auschwitz is located, but added that he had agreed to pay the fine.

A guide from the museum and several other people witnessed the act.

The memorial in question is located between the ruins of the two crematoriums at the former death camp set up by Nazi Germany after occupying Poland during World War II.

The fine comes as Polish police continue to search for three girls who caused outrage after throwing Nazi salutes outside Auschwitz on October 9.

They posted a photo of their actions on social media but deleted it shortly after it appeared on Instagram. However, it was picked up by museum authorities who have called in prosecutors.

While giving a Nazi salute is not explicitly banned in Poland, the law does forbid hate speech based on religion and promoting fascist ideology, with prison sentences of up to three years for offenders.

Polish authorities are trying to identify three girls who took a picture giving Nazi salutes outside Auschwitz this week before uploading it to Instagram

Around 1.1million people - mostly Jews - were killed at the Nazi's largest extermination camp during the Second World War (file image, children rescued from the camp)

In early October an 38-year-old Irish man pleased guilty to criminal damage after he used a coin to inscribe his name onto a wall at Auschwitz.

The 38-year-old Irish national, whose name was not reported, is said to have scratched his name onto the wall during a visit to the site because he had seen other people's names on it and thought it was the right thing to do.

The man was spotted by the Auschwitz Museum Guards who detained him but he was later released after pleading guilty, according to reports.

Auschwitz-Birkenau has become a symbol of Nazi Germany's genocide of European Jews, one million of whom were killed at the camp between 1940 to 1945.

More than 100,000 others including non-Jewish Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and anti-Nazi resistance fighters also died there.

Auschwitz-Birkenau has become a symbol of Nazi Germany's genocide of European Jews