More than 50 world leaders, including King Charles III, will join on Monday to a shrinking group of surviving Nazi camps of the Nazi camp in southern Poland to remember the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Red Army’s illumination, where, where More than 1.1 million peopleMostly Jews were murdered.
The day of the ceremonial ceremony, shaded by the revival of nationalism in Germany and several other European countries, will take place near the former gas chambers and crematorists in Oswiecim, Poland, whose name was silent during Hitler 1939-1945 employment Poland.
The memory will soon begin on Monday’s Auschwitz survivors – who at the end of World War II in 1945 in 1945, but mostly have died since then – laid wreaths on the wall of death. Wall, In the courtyard between the former barracks, there is a place where the prisoners were executed by the SS guards and remaining the jerky holes of the bullets.
Ronald S. Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress and the chairman of the Memorial Foundation in Auschwitz-Birkenau, said in an interview that “This is the most important anniversary that we will have because . ”
“We thought that the anti -Semitism virus was dead,” he said, “but it was only in hiding.”
Less than 50 survivors, less than half of the number attended by 75th anniversary, will participate in Monday’s memory. “There are very little left in five years,” Lauder said. “And those who are still alive will not have energy.”
However, the number of foreign dignitaries is still growing. This year’s list of guests, the largest ever, includes the score of government leaders and at least eight kings and queens. These include the outgoing Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz and its President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. It is also expected that Mr. Scholz, Friedrich Merz, is likely.
With less than a month to go before Germany organizes general elections, Mr. Scholz, Mr. Merz and other ordinary German politicians seek to limit the support of the alternative to Germany, a hard side known as AfD, which is widely considered A, which is widely considered as A dangerous return to nationalism, which at the age of 30 brought Hitler to power.
At the election assembly on Saturday in East Germany, AfD and Elon Musk, the best advisor to President Trump, who spoke according to the link to the videoHe urged the Germans not to feel guilty for the crimes of their grandparents.
This and calls the “Great Germany” assembly, said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Sunday “sounded too good and ominously, especially a few hours before the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz”.
None of the leaders at the event speaks on Monday. As part of the anniversary of events, A house where the Nazi commander Auschwitz lived with his family -What was the subject of the film “Zone of Interest” of the winning Oscar-Bee for the first time open to visitors after its sale of Polish owners for the Counter Extremism project, New York groups.
Piotr Cywinski, a Polish historian and director of the Auschwitz Museum, said his state institutions wanted to avoid political speeches and build the survivors and memory of the Nazi victims in the center of Monday’s events.
“Memory,” he said in an interview, “not only crying when you look at the past, it’s not just empathy when you look at the victims. That’s not enough. Memory, I think, is really the key to today’s time and the key to finding your position today. ”
The US delegation will be led by Steve Witkoff, the envoy of President Trump, who played a key role in negotiating the recent Gazette Agreement between Israel and Hamas and Howard Lutnice, the nominated Mr. Trump for the Business Secretary. The delegation also includes Charles Kushner, the father of Mr. Trump Jared Kushner and who is Mr. Trump as an ambassador in France.
Russia, which regularly participated in the anniversary of the events in Auschwitz, was not invited to this year, despite the liberation of the Soviet army camp in January 1945. The Kremlin justified the false pretext that Ukraine, president of the Jewish, was managed by the Nazis. Ukraine was invited and will be represented by its president Volodymyr Zlensky.
Russia under President Vladimir V. Putin transformed the Soviet role in the defeat of Hitler into a national cult, in which anyone in contradiction with the Kremlin is cast as a Nazi. She never mentioned the fact that the Soviet Union was effectively Hitler’s ally until 1941, when the Nazis began to gasp in Auschwitz. In 1939, Moscow and Berlin signed a non -aggressive treaty, which later led to the invasion of Poland by Nazi and Soviet forces.
A spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharová, pilled Polish organizers of Monday’s memories and told them that “your lives, employment, entertainment and the existence of your people were paid by your children with the blood of Soviet soldiers who defeated the defeated Third Reich. ”
Pro-Ukrainian voices on social media replied by claiming that the Ukrainians, not Russian, liberated Auschwitz. The first units to reach the extermination complex of the illuminates-birkenau were from 60. The army of the first Ukrainian frontSoviet force composed of soldiers from all over the Soviet Union. They liberated around 7,000 prisoners from the main camp in Auschwitz, from nearby Birkenau aza Work camp in Monowitz.
Political struggles in the Middle East were also affected, while pro-Palestinian activists demanded that the Polish arrest of the Israeli delegation expected to be led by the Minister of Education Yoav Kisch for what they say “genocida” in Gaza. Last year, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah.
While it was not expected that Mr. Netanyahu would participate, the Polish government announced this month that all Israeli officials who came would be safe from arrest.
Anatol Magdziarz He contributed by reporting from Warsaw.
