Two British youngsters have "apologized wholeheartedly" for "grabbing things without considering" from the previous Auschwitz concentration camp, their Cambridge school says.
The Perse School says the 17-year-old young men "endeavored to keep a few things which they had found on the ground".
They were kept at the site on Monday and discharged with suspended jail sentences on Tuesday.
The school said the students had been fined about £170.
A representative for the school said they had been given a year's probation, suspended for a long time.
Dean Ed Elliott said: "There will be a full and careful examination concerning what happened. I need to hear specifically from the young men with reference to what drove them to take these things.
"I need to guarantee that every vital lesson are learnt. The chance to have the capacity to visit Holocaust destinations conveys with it the obligation to treat those locales with the most extreme appreciation and affectability."
The teens were accused of unlawfully having things of uncommon social significance, which conveys a greatest 10-year jail sentence.
The BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw said that, as with comparable cases before, the young men were given suspended sentences and discharged.
"Occurrences like this happen about on more than one occasion a year, historical center staff said, notwithstanding the actuality notification caution guests not to lift anything up."
Watches at the Auschwitz-Birkenau site, which is presently a historical center, saw the understudies getting things starting from the earliest stage a building where Nazi German gatekeepers had put away detainees' usurped tangibles.
Our journalist said the green region once housed the storerooms where the trappings of Jews sent to the gas chambers were kept.
"At the point when police sought the pair they discovered catches, a rusted hair scissors, and sections of spoons and glass," he included.
The autonomous Perse School said the young men, who were on a history trek to Poland, were being bolstered by the representative head and had co-worked completely with the Polish powers.
A representative said: "We comprehend they have clarified that they got the things without considering, and they have apologized wholeheartedly for the offense they have given, and communicated genuine regret for their activity".
The director had already apologized for "any negligent and hostile conduct by these two students."
'Recounts a story'
Karen Pollock, CEO of the Holocaust Education Trust, said: "Each and every antique found at Auschwitz-Birkenau recounts an account of the more than a million individuals who were mercilessly killed by the Nazis there and this occurrence serves to show why our work is essential now like never before.
"We have an obligation to teach the cutting edge to counteract obliviousness and despise, and in more than 15 years of arranging for a large number of British adolescents to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, we have never known of such an occurrence."
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum was established in 1947 and has more than 80,000 British guests every year.
Keepers say a few guests attempt to take ancient rarities as keepsakes.
In 2010, a Swedish man was imprisoned for plotting the robbery of the "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work sets you free") sign from the section entryway of the Auschwitz site.
Auschwitz-Birkenau, situated close to the city of Krakow in southern Poland, was the biggest camp set up by the Germans amid the Second World War.
In the ballpark of 1.1 million individuals, basically Jews, were murdered there somewhere around 1940 and 1945, when Soviet troops freed it.
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