AUSCHWITZ is to be renamed to make it clear that the concentration camp was run by the Germans.
The Polish government asked for the change on the United Nations list of world heritage sites.
Along with the linked Birkenau camp, it will be known as the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi German Concentration and Death Camp.
Culture minister Kazimierz Ujazdowski said: "This is a victory for truth." Up to 1.5million Jews and others were killed by the Nazis in the camp during the Second World War.
Poles fear many countries have forgotten that the camps were set up by the Germans.
Warsaw points to references of "Polish gas chambers" or "Polish concentration camps" in the media as evidence that Poles are wrongly portrayed as collaborators with the Nazis in killing Jews.