“I do not need to expose places and events connected with the history of other nations.”
He added: “It was Poles, not the Jewish elites, that were completely plowed and liquidated during the war. Let us remember that the whole Jewish culture in practice has survived.”
Polish minister of tourism Witold Bańka said Mr Olszewski’s remarks were “scandalous” and he would be fired straight away.
Mr Banka said he was unaware that the trip to Auschwitz had been removed until the story was published.
Mr Olszewski, who is said to be a member of the right-wing populist Law and Justice party, also removed a trip to the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.
He ran for mayor twice in the town of Kamien Pomorski.
