Monday's ceremony in Poland is regarded as the likely last major observance of Auschwitz's liberation that any notable number of survivors will be able to attend, due to their advanced ages.
Survivors and relatives attend a ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, on Monday.
Among those who traveled to the site was 86-year-old Tova Friedman, who was 6 years old when she was among the 7,000 people liberated from Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945. She flew to Poland this month from her home in New Jersey.."I realize that we're in a crisis again, that there is so much hatred around, so much distrust, that if we don't stop, it may get worse and worse. There may be another terrible destruction.
Dozens of other leaders and dignitaries attended Monday's ceremony, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Britain's King Charles III and French President Emmanuel Macron, but all were asked by organizers not to speak at the ceremony. Instead, they were requested to listen and observe as they toured the Auschwitz grounds, which now operates as a memorial site whose goal is to inform visitors about the atrocities that happened at the site.
At the ceremony on the former grounds of Auschwitz, Duda, accompanied by survivors, laid a wreath at the so-called"Death Wall," where shooting executions took place. Some of the survivors wore blue-and-white striped scarves, the colors of the prisoner uniforms they were forced to wear at the camp.Holocaust survivors attend ceremonies commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet forces in Oswiecim, Poland, on Monday.
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