This Monday marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen and Minister Susanne Raab, among others, came from Austria.
On January 27, 1945, Red Army soldiers entered the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. This was the largest German prison camp complex; the German Empire had annexed this part of Poland. To mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation, a commemorative event will take place this Monday with approximately 60 heads of state and government.
Family Minister Susanne Raab (ÖVP) represents interim Chancellor and Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg (ÖVP). The delegation includes Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen, the President of the Jewish Community of Vienna, Oskar Deutsch, and the head of the Austrian Resistance Documentation Archive, Andreas Kranebitter.
Macron and Scholz expected
People must “remain vigilant when anti-democratic forces arise,” Van der Bellen said in a video message on Monday. Threatening and insulting Jewish people should not be tolerated. “It is our shared responsibility to keep the memory of the victims alive forever. “Your fate is shocking proof of what hatred and incitement can lead to,” Haubner said in a broadcast. He is currently on a working visit to Poland and has laid a wreath at the monument in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Internationally, the kings of Great Britain (Charles III) and Spain (Felipe VI) have announced their participation, as have German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and the President of the EU Parliament Roberta Metsola . A speech by Polish President Andrzej Duda was planned for the morning, and the memorial service starts at 4 p.m.
The exhibition is dedicated to Austria
In the Auschwitz camp complex alone, the Nazis murdered approximately one million European Jews between 1940 and 1945. In addition, approximately 80,000 non-Jewish Poles, 25,000 Roma and 20,000 Soviet soldiers were killed.
Austria has its own national exhibition dedicated to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum. It was opened in 2021 by Federal President Van der Bellen.
Source: Krone
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