Written by Barbara Erling and Cuba Steziki
ASACOSEEm (Poland) (Reuters) – World leaders of the Auschwitz camp on Monday to commemorate the eighty anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi death camp at the hands of the Soviet forces, while it will likely be one of the last gatherings of its kind for those who have suffered from this suffering. Her horns.
The anniversary of the camp will attend the site of the camp, which was established by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II, German Chancellor Olaf Schults, King Charles King of Britain, French President Emmanuel Macron, European Council President Antonio Costa, and another group of personalities. Leaders.
Israel will represent the Minister of Education, Yoaf Kish.
Powell Sawiki, a spokesman for the Museum and Auschwitz-Birkinao Museum, said that there will be no speeches for politicians, and that the leaders will instead listen to the votes of the survivors.
“It is clear to all of us that this is the last anniversary where we can have a group of survivors who can be seen and who can be present at the site,” he said.
“This will not happen within ten years, and we have to listen as long as possible to the voices of the survivors, their testimonies, and their personal stories. It is of great importance when we talk about how to form the memory of Auschwitz.”
The main celebration ceremony will start at 1500 GMT in a tent held over the former Auschwitz II Camp Gate. One of the anniversary symbols is a cargo train car that will be placed in front of the gate.
More than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, died in gas rooms or due to hunger, cold and disease in Auschwitz.
More than 3 million Poland Jews of 3.2 million were killed by the Nazis, which represents about half of the Jews who were killed in the Holocaust.
Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews systematically killed in Europe, which was occupied by Germany.
