Block no. 20 of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, located in the former Auschwitz I concentration camp, is dedicated to the memory of the 76,000 French victims deported to the Auschwitz camps. France has occupied this block since 1978. The new exhibition, designed in 2005, focuses on the tragic fate of five deportees. It was inaugurated on 27 January 2005 by President Jacques Chirac on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. The President then spoke these words: "By our presence this morning, by this exhibition, by the international ceremony this afternoon, we attest that the memory of each of these lives remains worthy of the deepest respect. The memory of their humanity haunts us. The testimony of their martyred existence binds us."