The survivors from Auschwitz warn that “the world has become poisonous” on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the death camp
The 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz by Soviet troops is celebrated on Monday former Death Camp, a ceremony, which is widely considered the last big holiday, which can participate in any significant number of survivors.
Among them who have traveled to the place of the 86-year-old Tova Friedman, who was six years old when in 1945. It was one of the 7,000 people liberated on January 27. He believes that this will be the last gathering of survivors in Auschwitz, and he came. From his house of New Jersey to add his voice to the growing warnings of hatred and anti-Semitism.
“The world has become poisonous,” he said one day before the celebrations near Krakow. “I realize that we are in the crisis again that there is so much hatred around, so no confidence that if we do not stop, it can worsen more and more terrible destruction.”
The Nazi German forces have killed about 1.1 million people in the territory of South Poland, which was under the German occupation during World War II. Most of the victims were Jews, who were killed in the gasways, as well as Poles, Gypsies, Soviet prisoners of war, gay and others who were aimed at destroying the Nazi racial ideology.
The elders who survived the camp, some of the blue-white striped scarves, who reminded their prison uniform, walked to the death wall, including the prisoners, including many Poles who resisted their country's occupation.
Prime Minister Justin Truido met with two of the Canadian Holocaust residents living in Krakow, Poland, within the framework of events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Burkenau concentration camp.
Polish President Andrzej Duda, whose nation lost six million citizens during the war. He took a candle and walked with the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenow State Museum Peter Jotr Jotinski. About two men bowed their heads, prayed and crossed.
“We, the Polish, on the land, which were occupied by Nazi Germans at that time, built this annihilation industry and this concentration camp today,” Duda then told reporters.
He spoke about so many people, especially the Jewish people, “disgraceful damage”.
“It is our duty to remember.”
In general, the Germans killed six million Jews all over Europe, destroying two-thirds of the Jews of Europe and one third of the world. In 2005, the United Nations established a January 27th day of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Officials in Europe and others stopped to remember.
“Because the last survivors fade, our duty of Europeans to remember unspeakable crimes and respect the memory of the victims,” said European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen, who is German.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, who led the nation defending himself from Russia's brutal invasion, put a candle in Kiev Har Holocaust Memorial, where tens of thousands of Jews were executed during the Nazi occupation. On Monday, he arrived in Poland to take part in commemorative events.
“Evil, who seeks to destroy the lives of all peoples, still remains in the world,” he wrote on his Telegram page.
Remembrance measures will be completed on Monday, when the world leaders and the royal family will join the elderly, the youngest of which is 80 in Birkenau, in the area of Auschwitz, where the mass killings of the Jews took place.
However, he did not comment on politicians this year. Due to the older age, about 50 of which are expected, the organizers prefer to make them a celebration center. The President of the World Jewish Congress Ronald Lauder will also perform.
World leaders are present, including Trucko
Prime Minister Justin Trucko was expected to be present.
Before the ceremony, Trewed met with the survivors from the Auschwitz of Canada, who also traveled to Poland. This can be the last major international trip to Trucko as Prime Minister until March 9, the next leader of the Liberal Party.
In a statement published on X SundayTrucko wrote: “80 years ago, an Auschwitz Birkeno's concentration and annihilation camp was liberated, ending the systematic killings and genocide committed by the Nazi regime.”
“Tomorrow I will join the world leaders in the territory of Auschwitz Birkenau to respect the victims of the Holocaust to stand against the growing anti-Semitism and the denial of the Holocaust and reaffirm our promise.
Among other leaders are German Chanf Sholts and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. According to the German DPA news agency, Germany has never sent the celebrations to its two highest state representatives.
It is a sign of Germany's continued commitment to nation's crimes, even when the extreme right party has increased its support in recent years.
French President Emanuel Mcron will take part in a minute silence at the Paris Memorial, which is a symbolic grave for six million Jews who have no grave with the survivor and Bergen-Belsen. Camp:
There will be King Charles III of the UK along with the kings and queens of Spain, Denmark and Norway.
Russian representatives have previously been central guests in 1945. On January 27, during the liberation of the Soviet camp and defeat the huge losses suffered by the Soviet forces during the defeat of fascist Germany. But they were not welcomed after Russia's large-scale 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 it was the Soviet soldier who defeated this terrible, complete evil and took a victory, the greatness of which will remain in world history forever.”
“Russian citizens are the immediate descendants and successors of the winners,” Putin said. “We will continue to comply with the attempts to rewrite the legal and moral judgment of the Nazi and their provocateurs in principle.”
The Holocaust teachers say that by spreading more misinformation about the Holocaust on social networks, their work is more important than ever for young generations to know what happened.
