At Auschwitz, a solemn ceremony at the time of nationalism

Dozens of world leaders, including King Charles III, joined the group of survivors in the Nazi German camping camp, were declining on Monday in southern Poland to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the day. Red Army Liberation Auschwitz, where More than 1.1 million peopleMostly Jews, have been murdered.

A solemn day, obscured by the rise of nationalism in Germany and some other European countries, starting in the early morning of Monday morning near a stuffy room and the old crematorium in the town of Oswiecim. Poland, the name of Germany turned into Auschwitz during the Hitler period occupied 1939-1945. Poland.

The Memorial Ceremony was conducted with survivors in Auschwitz – the number of thousands of people at the end of World War II in 1945 but mostly died since then – hobbling into the yard between two old barracks With red bricks to place candles lighting on the wall of death.

The wall, one side is the building where SS doctors conduct weird experiments and often cause death on female prisoners, where the Nazis Judge Quyet prisoners and resistance warriors in Polish. It still has a hole in the bullet.

On the other side of the yard where the opening ceremony was the building, where in September 1941, SS first tried the use of ZYKLON B, a cyanide -based pesticide invented in Germany and later Used to kill masses in a stuffy room.

Older survivors, many of them are sick and have to fight or be supported by young relatives, stop for a while and silence on the wall after placing candles. Following them were Polish President Andrzej Duda and Piotr Cywinski, director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. The two made the holy seal next to a row of wreaths with red and white roses.

The flag of the Auschwitz museum, with blue and white stripes – like the flag on the uniform that all prisoners must wear before being sprayed with steam or being taken to slaves at German factories outside the camp – Fly on a row of flagpole on the top of the wall.

Ronald S. Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress and President of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Fund, said in an interview that “This is the most important anniversary we are about to organize for the number of people living for the number of people living The missing is increasingly decreasing and because of what is happening in the world today. ”

He said: “We think that the Jewish microoption is dead, but it is just hiding.”

Less than 50 survivors will attend the memorial ceremony on Monday, less than half of the people attending the 75th anniversary. Lauder said: “In the next 5 years, there will be very little left. “And the alive people will have no strength to go.”

However, the number of foreign officials continues to increase. The largest guest list ever, including many government leaders and at least 8 kings and queens. Among them were the upcoming Prime Minister of Germany, Olaf Scholz and the president of the country, Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The one who is also expected to be the successor of Mr. Scholz, Friedrich Merz.

In less than a month left, Germany organized the General Election, Mr. Scholz, Mr. Merz and other orthodox politicians of Germany were trying to limit the support for alternatives to Germany. , a righteous party called AFD was considered by many to be a dangerous return to the nationalism that brought Hitler to power in the 1930s.

At a election protest on Saturday in Eastern Germany, AFD politicians and Elon Musk, the leading advisor of President Trump, spoke through the video linkCalling the Germans not to feel guilty for the crimes of the Nazi dynasty of their grandparents.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that and the call at the protest for a “great Germany” on Sunday, “sounded so familiar and ominous, especially just a few hours before the ceremony. The recitation of Auschwitz “.

None of the leaders at the event on Monday will speak. Is part of the celebration event, The house where the Nazi commander in Auschwitz lives with his family – Originally the theme of the movie Oscar “The area of ​​interest” – for the first time opened to visitors after being sold by Polish owners to the anti -extremism project, a group of headquarters. in New York.

Mr. Cywinski, Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, said that his state-run organization wants to avoid political speeches and put survivors as well as commemorate the Nazi victims in the middle. The mind of events on Monday.

“Memory,” he said in an interview, “Not just crying when looking back at the past, it was not just sympathy when you looked at the victims. This is not enough. I think memory is really the key to today’s era and the key to finding your position today. ”

In a brief speech in front of Poland, Mr. Duda, the president, said his country was in special tasks to preserve memories. He said: “We, Poland, in the land occupied by the Nazi Germany at that time, the Germans built the destruction industry and this concentrated camp, today the security guard signed signed by the security guard. memory ”.

He added: “We will always remember, and through this memory, the world will never allow such a tragic human disaster to happen again.”

The US delegation will be led by Steve Witkoff, the special envoy of President Trump, leading, who plays an important role in recent negotiations. Gaza ceasefire agreement Between Israel and Hamas, and Howard Lutnick, who was nominated by Mr. Trump as Minister of Trade. In the delegation, there were Charles Kushner, the father of Mr. Trump’s son -in -law, Jared Kushner and was chosen by Mr. Trump as a ambassador in France.

Russia, who regularly participated in anniversary events in Auschwitz, was not invited to attend this year’s celebration, despite the liberation of the Soviet army in January 1945. Representatives from Moscow had Dependent from anniversary events since the beginning of the comprehensive campaign in Russia. A large invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, something that Kremlin justified based on the reason for the mistake that Ukraine, was president of Jewish, run by Nazi Germany. Ukraine has been invited and will be represented by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Russia under President Vladimir V. Putin turned the role of the Soviet Union in defeating Hitler into a national sect, in which anyone who had a conflict with the Kremlin was considered a Nazis. Never mentioned the fact that the Soviet Union was actually the ally of Hitler until 1941, when the Nazis started attacking the Jews in Auschwitz. Moscow and Berlin signed a treaty that did not violate each other in 1939, resulting in the aggression of Poland of Nazi and Soviet German forces at the end of that year.

Maria Zakharova, spokesman for Russian Foreign Affairs, criticized Poland’s Monday Memorial Ceremony, told them that “Life, work, entertainment and the existence of your people , your children have to pay the blood of the Soviet soldiers who defeated them. ” The third empire. ”

The voices that supported Ukraine on social networks responded by claiming that the Ukrainian army, not Russia has liberated Auschwitz. The first army to approach Auschwitz-Birkenau to destroy the Auschwitz-Birkenau The 60th Army of Ukrainian Army 1A Soviet force consisted of soldiers from all over the Soviet Union. They liberated about 7,000 prisoners from the main camp in Auschwitz, from nearby Birkenau and from a concentration camp. Labor camp in Monowitz.

Political struggles in the Middle East have also invaded, with activists supporting Palestine to ask Poland to arrest members of the Israeli delegation, which is expected to be led by the Yoov Kisch Minister. Head, because of what they called “genocide” in Gaza. Last year’s international criminal court issued an arrest of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

While Netanyahu is expected to not attend, the Polish government announced this month that all Israeli officials have arrived will not be arrested.

Anatol Magdziarz Contribute reports from Warsaw.