On January 27 it was 80 years ago that the Auschwitz concentration camp was freed, where more than a million people were murdered. In Austria this year, in addition to the memorial event on the Heldenplatz, there will also be a parliament in parliament with chairman of the National Council, Walter Rosenkranz (FPö).
The Red Army freed the Auschwitz camp on January 27, 1945. Tens later, the commemoration became a publicly celebrated Holocaust Remembrance Day, which will take place next Sunday.
Together with the second chairman of the National Council Peter Haubner (ÖVP) and the third chairman of the National Council Doris Bures (Spö) and chairman of the Federal Council Andrea Eder-Gechthaler (ÖVP), Rosenkanz invited people for a discussion event in parliament After the memorial ceremony. Neither he nor the numerous MPs who participate in the meeting will speak. Instead, the students talk to contemporary witness Erika Freeman.
Rosenkanz has been repeatedly criticized since his arrival
In recent months, the Israelite community has expressed sharp criticism of the fact that Walter Rosenkanz, a freedom activist and member of the Brotherhood, is at the head of the National Council. For example, the chairman of the National Council was prevented from commemorating the victims of the Pogroms of November by laying a wreath on the Judenplatz, after he had previously explicitly not invited the IKG for the event at the Shoah name wall. .
Also, the IKG did not want to participate in meetings of the National Fund for the victims of National Socialism, as long as they were led by Rosenskanz as required by law. The Brotherhood member then said that he would “certainly consider” taking a step aside for his deputies. He announced this shortly after his election.
Just like in previous years, the victims of National Socialism are also commemorated on Heldenplatz. The ‘now-sign setting’ platform event starts at 6 pm, where descendants of Auschwitz survivors will speak. In addition to a Jewish choir, the victims are also commemorated with a wreath laying. In previous years, 300-500 people took part in the event, but because of the anniversary, the organizers expect a few hundred more this year. The IKG will also be represented there by vice-president Claudia Prutscher.
Van der calling at the memorial service in Auschwitz
IKG president Oskar Deutsch, as well as federal president Alexander van der Bellen and numerous other heads of state will be present at the official memorial meeting in the Auschwitz camp. Prime Minister Alexander Schallenberg will be in Brussels in Brussels on Monday and will be represented in Auschwitz by Minister of Chancellery Susanne Raab (both ÖVP).
All survivors of Auschwitz who are still alive are also invited to the memorial service. The freight wagon that has been in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp since 2009, in the middle of the platform on which SS-Artsen performed selections and most upcoming Jews sent directly to the gas chamber to death, will be placed directly in front of the door. placed on the occasion of the Hoofdpoort memorial event.
“The German Nazis brought people here in freight wagons like this. These cars connected ghettos and hiding places with the place of death, “said Piotr Cywiński, director of the Auschwitz Museum when the car was first exhibited on the platform.
Source: Krone
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