The eighty anniversary of the liberation of Auschitz is marked by the Soviet forces on Monday at the previous death camp, a ceremony that is widely treated as the last main celebration that any noticeable number of survivors will be able to attend.
Among those who traveled to the site, Tu Friedman, 86, was six years old when she was among 7,000 people who were liberated on January 27, 1945. She believes that he would be the last gathering of survivors in Auschwitz and came from her home in New Jersey to add Her voice to those who warn of the height of hatred and anti -Semitism.
“The world has become poisonous,” she told Associated Press a day before the nearby Crakov celebrations. “I realize that we are in crisis again, that there is a lot of hatred around it, and a lot of lack of confidence, so that if we do not stop, it may get worse. There may be another terrible destruction.”
The Nazi German forces killed about 1.1 million people at the site in southern Poland, which were under German occupation during World War II. Most of the victims were Jews who were killed on an industrial scale in the gas rooms, but also the Poles, Rome, the Soviet war prisoners, the gay people and others who were aimed at eliminating the Nazi racist ideology.
The survivors of the elderly walked from the camps, while others wear blue and white scrusted scarves that remember their prison costume, together until the wall of death, where prisoners were executed, including columns that resisted the occupation of their country.
They were joined by Polish President Andrig Doda, whose nation lost six million citizens during the war. Carry a candle and walked with the director of the Auschwitz-Birkinao Pyrene Siinke Museum. On the wall, the two men bowed their heads, and the bumps of prayers and crossed themselves.
Doda told reporters after that: “We are columns, on their land – which the Nazis occupied at that time – the Germans built this genocide and the focus camp today is the guardians of memory.”
He talked about “unimaginable damage” that many people have caused, especially the Jewish people.
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In all, the Nazis regime killed 6 million Jews from all over Europe, as they exterminated two thirds of the Jews in Europe and a third of all Jews all over the world. In 2005, the United Nations set January 27 on the day of the Holocaust International.
Throughout Europe, officials and others stopped remembering it.
The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Layen, a German, said on X.
Ukrainian President Foludmir Zelinski, who leads a country defending itself against the Russian brutal invasion, put a candle in the Baby Yar Yar Monument for Holocaust a day ago in Kiev, where tens of thousands of Jews were executed during the Nazi occupation. On Monday, Poland arrived to attend the celebrations.
“The evil that seeks to destroy the life of the entire nations is still in the world,” wrote on the page of its telegram.
The late anniversary will culminate when world leaders and commitment will join the elderly survivors, and the smallest of them in the eighties, in Berkinao, the Auschwitz part, where the mass killing of the Jews occurred.
However, politicians were not asked to speak this year. Because of the advanced age of the survivors, about 50 of them are expected, the organizers choose to make them the center of the celebration. Ronald Lauder, President of the World Jewish Conference, will also speak.
Among the leaders expected to attend, Germany Consultant Olaf Schools and President Frank Walter Steinmere. Germany has never sent from the highest representatives of the state to the celebrations before, according to the German news agency DPA.
It is a sign of Germany’s continued commitment to bear the responsibility of the nation’s crimes, even with the right -wing right party to increase support in recent years.
French President Emmanuel Macron will attend after he pushed his respect for the Memorial Memory in Paris, a symbolic grave of the 6 million Jews who have no grave, and meet with a survivor from Auschwitz and one of Bergen Bilgen Camp.
Britain’s King Charles III will also be there, along with kings and queens from Spain, Denmark and Norway.
The Russian actors in the past two central guests were at the anniversary of the anniversary in appreciation of the liberation of the Red Army of the camp on January 27, 1945, and the huge losses of the Soviet forces to defeat the allies in Nazi Germany. But they have not been welcome since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The Kremlin said that Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a message to the participants, saying: “We will always remember that the Soviet soldier was the one who crushed this terrible evil, and won the victory, which will remain great forever in the history of the world.”
“There is something that must be said to the organizers and all the Europeans who will be there: your life, work, entertainment, the presence of your states, and your children have been paid by the Soviet soldiers, their lives, their blood,” Maria Zakharova said at a press conference on Thursday.
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