This Monday marks eighty years since the liberation of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, in Poland. The date is being marked with a ceremony that featured testimony from Holocaust survivors.
This Monday marks eighty years since the liberation of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, in Poland. A killing site where the Nazis killed more than one million one hundred thousand people.
The date is being marked with a ceremony that featured testimony from Holocaust survivors. Security measures, as explained by SIC journalist Luísa Correia, were reinforced.
The 50 delegations that will be present have already started to arrive. There are also many journalists there who will cover the ceremony and who had to go through a very thorough search.
In the morning, the 50 survivors, who could only be accompanied by one person, were present at a solemn ceremony. They moved to block 11, also known as death block, where many people were tortured. At the scene, they placed candles and flower crowns.
The solemn ceremony was also marked by the speech of the President of Poland, who expressed national pride and spoke of the country as the guardian of what happened in the Holocaust.
Among the various important personalities who will be present are thethe French President, Emmanuel Macron and the Antonio Costa. Representing Portugal will be the Minister of the Presidency, António Leitão Amaro.
Survivors say this may be one of the last ceremonies of its kind as with time passing, there are fewer and fewer people to tell this story in the first person.
