"Auschwitz is a great lesson in today's turbulent time that everything must be done to protect the security and life of one's citizens," Beata Szydlo said.
Reinhold Hanning was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison by a German court for his role as an accessory in the murder of at least 170,000 people in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland.
The family of a "Schindler's List" survivor gave a collection that the museum's director called "the biggest gain for decades in the history of our archive."