According to Duda, the Poles are today’s memory guards.
Polish President Andrej Duda placed a wreath on Monday to the wall of death in the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau and opened the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. The commemorative events correspond to the International Day of the Holocaust victims of the Holocaust, which was established by the UN General Assembly on this day. This is informed by TASR.
According to Duda, the Poles are today’s memory guards. “In a sense, we can say that we are continuing the mission taken by Pilecki,” said President. Witold Pilecki was a member of the secret resistance army. In 1940 he voluntarily imprisoned in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp where he organized resistance and compiled a resistance movement and compiled The reports that were there in 1943. He never allowed the repetition of such a disaster of humanity, “Duda added.
The official celebration program will start at 4 pm with the participation of delegations from all over the world. The program will include musical performances, prayers of spiritual various confessions or speeches of memorials. The Russian delegation to the celebrations was not invited.