Dozens of world leaders, including King Charles III, joined a falling group of Nazi Death Camp in southern Poland on Monday, in memory of the 80th anniversary of the Red Army’s independence, where More than 1.1 million peopleMost Jews were killed.
In the shadow of the restoration of nationalism in Germany and several other European countries, the early one day began near a former gas chamber and cemetery in the Poland city of Osasim, called Hitler’s 1939-1945 of 1939-1945. German was made during the occupation. Poland.
This memorial continued with the survivors of Auschwitz-which received thousands of people at the end of World War II in 1945, but mostly died-two to put bright candles on the wall of death. The red brick is roaming the courtyard between the barracks.
The wall, on one side, has a building in which SS physicians conducted harsh and often deadly tests on female prisoners, where prisoners and Poland fighters were hanged by Nazis. It is a pokmark with bullet holes.
On the other side of the courtyard where the opening ceremony took place is the building where in September 1941, SS first tested the use of pesticide -based pesticide Zicon B in Germany and later used for mass murder in gas chambers Have done.
Older people, many of them walk with weak and cans or get caught by young relatives, after keeping their candles on the wall short and quietly. He was followed by Poland’s President Andersjage Doda and Putter Susky, director of the Auschwitz-Berkino Museum. Both crossed themselves near a row of sheets with red and white roses.
The Auschwitz Museum’s flag, with blue and white striped – like the same uniforms that all prisoners were to wear abusively before they were sent to the German factories outside the camp to work as slave laborers. .
“This is the most important anniversary that we are due to the shrinking number of survivors and this,” said Ronald S. Louder, president of the World Jewish Congress and the chairman of the Auschwitz-Berkino Memorial Foundation. The cause is happening in the world today.
“We believed that the Jewish virus was dead,” he said. “
Less than 50 survivors will participate in the memory of Monday, less than half the number half of the 75th anniversary. “In five years, you will be very short,” said Mr Louder. “And those who are still alive will not have the energy to go.”
However, the number of foreign honors is increasing. This year’s list of guests, which is the largest ever, includes several government leaders and at least eight Kings and Queens. These include the German departure Chancellor, Olaf Schools and its President Frank Walter Stein Mayor. Frederick Murz, a possible successor to Mr Shols, is also expected.
Less than a month before Germany’s general election is held, German politicians in Mr Schools, Mr. Mirz and other mainstream are entering to control support for Germany’s replacement, which is a tough right right There is a party known as AFD. Dangerous throwback to nationalism that brings Hitler to power in the 1930s.
At an election rally in East Germany on Saturday, AFD politician and Elon Musk, top adviser to President Trump, who spoke via video linkUrged the Germans not to feel guilty of their grandfather’s grandmother’s Nazi period.
It and this rally calls for “Great Germany”, Poland’s Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, said on Sunday, “Particularly a few hours before the anniversary of Auschwitz’s independence seemed very familiar and notorious. “”
No leader will speak in the event on Monday. As part of the anniversary events, the house where the Nazi Commandant of Auschwitz lived with his family-which was the subject of an Oscar-winning film “Interest Zone”-for the first time after its sale by the Polash Will open for. Owners of a counter -extremist project based in New York.
Mr Susky, director of the Auschwitz-Berkina Museum, said his government agency wants to avoid political speeches and wants to remember survivors and Nazi victims at the center of Monday events.
He said in an interview, “Memory is not only crying when you look at the past, when you look at the victims, it is not just sympathy. It is not enough. I think the memory is really today. The key to time and today’s position is the key to finding.
In a brief address to Polish Television, President, Mr Doda said that his country has a special duty to preserve memory. “We poles, whose land was occupied by the Nazi Germans at that time, the Germans built the ruin industry and these detention camps are the guardians of the memorandum today,” he said.
He added, “We will always remember, and through this memory, the world will never allow such a dramatic human destruction again.”
An American delegation will be headed by President Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Watkov, who played a key role in negotiating the recent Gaza Trace Agreement between Israel and Hamas, and Mr Trump’s nominee for the Secretary of Trade Howard Lotnik – The delegation also contains Charles Kushner, who is the father of Mr. Trump’s son -in -law Jayer Kushner and is the election of Mr Trump as an ambassador to France.
Despite the independence of the Soviet army camp in January 1945, Russia, who regularly participated in birthday events in Auschwitz, was not invited to this year’s commemoration. Representatives from Moscow have been excluded from the anniversary of Russia’s anniversary. In February 2022, a scale attack on Ukraine, which the Kremlin, justified the false excuse that Ukraine, whose president is Jewish, were under Nazis. Ukraine was invited, and will be represented by its president, Wolodmeer Zelinsky.
Russia, under President Vladimir Wei Putin, has turned the Soviet role into a national sect in Hitler’s defeat, in which everyone suffering from the Kremlin is cast as a Nazi. Never mentioned the fact is that the Soviet Union was effectively Hitler’s ally until 1941, when the Nazis began to grass Jews in Auschwitz. Moscow and Berlin signed the Nangration Agreement in 1939, which led to the invasion of Poland by Nazi and Soviet forces later this year.
Foreign Ministry spokesman, Maria Zakharova, cursed Poland’s organizers of Monday, told them, “Your life, jobs, entertainment, and your people’s existence, with the blood of Soviet soldiers to your children. Payments have been made.
Ukrainian voices on social media replied that Ukraine, not Russian, were freed by soldiers. The first troops to reach Auschwitz-Burkino’s Complex were from the Lord The 60th army of the first Ukrainian frontA Soviet force consisting of Soviet troops. They felt from the nearest Burkinao, from the main camp of Auschwitz, released nearly 7,000 prisoners and a Labor camp in monotz.
The Middle East has also been interrupted in the political struggle, in which Palestinian activists have demanded that Poland arrest members of the Israeli delegation, led by the Minister of Education, Yu Kach, “genocide” in Gaza. Say The International Criminal Court last year issued a warrant for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Although Mr Netanyahu was not expected to attend it, the Polish government announced this month that all Israeli officials will be protected from arrest.
Anatol Magdizarz Warsaw cooperated in reporting.
