Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle
The focus of the world will be placed in the rest survivor On Monday, the atrocities of Nazi Germany joined their commemorative activities with the world leaders and royal members to commemorate the 80th anniversary Oswelin concentration campEssence
Main observation occurs in website In southern Poland, more than one million people murdered in Nazi Germany, most of them were Jews, as well as Poland, Rome and Cindue, Soviet prisoners of war, homosexuals and others. eliminate In the racial ideology of Adolf Hitler.
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Due to the age of survivors, the anniversary of the anniversary caused huge beauty, and realized that they would disappear soon, even if the new wars made their warnings as ever.
this Oswing-Bilk Aina Locked Museum He said that about 50 survivors from the Oswelin Group and other camps will participate in the event on Monday afternoon and will be participated by the political leaders and royal family.
In this case, the power will sit down and listen to the voice of the prisoner, and still have time to hear their voice.
Oswelin concentration camp
In 1940, the German authorities established an Oswelin concentration camp in Oswiecim in 1939 in Oswiecim in 1939 and invaded Poland in 1939. In the early days, it was a camp of Polish prisoners, including Catholic priests and members of the Poland’s underground resistance movement. The Germans later established about 40 camps in the area, but the most infamous is Birkenau, which is a huge place for large -scale killing in the gas room.
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The person who reached Birkenau was taken on a narrow windowless train. On the infamous slope, the Nazis chose them who could use them as forced workers. Others-elderly people, women, children and babies-they were killed shortly after they arrived.
In the massacre of the Oswelin concentration camp and other camps, the slums and the large -scale execution of the people’s houses, the Germans murdered 6 million Jews, or two -thirds of the entire European Jews.
Liberated by the Red Army
(On January 27, 1945, the Soviet army arrived at the door of the Oswing Concentration Camp and discovered about 7,000 weak prisoners.
The reporter of Pravda, a Soviet newspaper, Boris Polevoy, was the first witness. He described an incredible and painful scene: “I saw thousands of thousands of thousands Tortured people, the Red Army saved these torture people-people were so thin that they were crumbling like the wind.
At that time, the Allies crossed Europe in a series of offensive against Germany. In July 1944, the Soviet Army liberated the Malaja Nick camp near Lublin and will continue to liberate the Oswelins concentration camp, Stuttov and others.
At the same time, the United States and the British army liberated the camps to the West, including Burinswald, Dahao, Maussen and Belgen-Belson.
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After liberation, some prisoners died of the disease. Many people are sorrowful to the murderer’s parents and children, spouses, and siblings. The entire family was destroyed.
Havi Dreifuss, a historian at the University of Traviv University, said in an online discussion on the recent anniversary: ”For Jewish survivors, the liberation day is a very sad day.”
Memorial website Oswelin Concentration Camp
Today, the location is a museum and a memorial managed by Poland, one of the most visited sites in Poland. Its mission is to retain the memories of the objects there and what happened there; it organizes tour guides and historians for research. In 2024, more than 1.83 million people visited the website.
The museum’s challenge is huge, including the efforts to protect the barracks and other items that have never planned to endure for a long time. A special emotional project involves the protection of the children’s murderous children.
Oswelin concentration camp as a symbol of all Nazi horror
The Oswelin concentration camp was not only a place where 1.1 million (90 % of which) were slaughtered. It also shrouded a lot of Nazi crimes in the world’s collective memory, as well as hatred, racism, and anti -Jewelism.
One of the main symbols of the Oswelin concentration camp has become the main symbol of the Holocaust and other Nazi crimes is that this is also a labor camp, and thousands of witnesses can tell what happened in the world.
“Thomas Van de Putte) said:” A relatively large number of people survived, for example, on websites that have no components of labor, this has hardly happened. “
Since 1942-43, as many as 900,000 people were murdered in Treblinka, most of them were Jewish, and large -scale killings were also carried out in Belzec and other camps. There are almost no survivors.
In the Oswelin concentration camp, the Germans left the barracks and watches, the relics of the poisonous gas room, and the hair and personal items of the people who were killed there. “ARBEIT MACHT FREI” (work will provide you with free) door is confirmed.
In Birkenau, the rest remains on collective conscience. As Van Der Putte pointed out: “You have the door, you have a truck. You have an incredible long railway platform, leading to the former crematorium and gas room.”
Who wants to go
President, royal family, ambassador, Rabbi and pastor will join survivor In a warm tent set up in Birkenau on Monday afternoon.
For decades, the country, who has been under the leadership of Hitler, expressed RE regrets, and will be represented by Prime Minister Olaf Scholz and Frank-Walter President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The Austrian President will also participate. The President was annexed by Germany in 1938. Italy’s dictator Benito Mussolini and Hitler alliance with Hitler.
Other participants include Polish President Andrzej Duda, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron.
King Charles III has long been committed to promoting the commemorative activities of the massacre for a long time. He will also participate with other European royal members, including the Spanish King Felipe Vi.
Who will not be there
Russian President Vladimir Putin was an honorary guest on the 60th anniversary of its establishment in 2005. This proves that the Soviet Union paid the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union’s heavy efforts to defeat Germany in Germany cost.
But due to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, he was no longer welcomed. This will be the third consecutive year-after Russia’s comprehensive invasion of Ukraine in February 2022-no Russian representative.
The curator of the museum Piotrcywiński said: “This is the anniversary of liberation. We remember the victim, but we also celebrate freedom. It is difficult to imagine the existence of Russia, which obviously does not understand the value of freedom.”
The war between Israel and Hamas also aroused excitement about whether Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Neginiahu should participate. International Criminal Court, the world’s highest war criminal court, Issue an arrest warrant In November, Netanyahu accused him of acting in Gaza Israel. This means that Poland, as a signed person, will face his obligation to arrest him.
Finally, the Polish government Posted by a resolution Vowed to ensure the safety participation of Israel’s highest representative. However, Israel adheres to the plan to send education minister Yoav Kisch.
