TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY TANISLAW WASZAK A sign reads, "Conservation Works," at the entrance to one of the historical camp barracks at the former Nazi death camp in Birkenau, which is closed to visitors because of its bad condition, in Oswiecim (Auschwitz), Poland, on March 17 2009. Museum authorities at the state-run Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum are struggling to save the enduring symbol of the Holocaust from the impact of time and the elements. In the drive to stop the site falling into ruin and preserve the memory of the 1.1 million overwhelmingly Jewish victims who died here during World War II, they face tall odds. AFP PHOTO / WOJTEK RADWANSKI (Photo credit should read WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP/Getty Images)(credit: WOJTEK RADWANSKI/Getty Images)