Auschwitz’s survivors warn that “the world has become poisonous” on the eighties of the liberation of the death camp

The eighty anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz is celebrated by the Soviet forces on Monday at the previous death camp, a celebration that is widespread as the last main celebration that any noticeable number of survivors will be able to attend.

Among those who traveled to the 86 -year -old Topa Friedman, who was six years old when she was among 7,000 people who were released on January 27, 1945. She believes this will be the last gathering of survivors in Auschwitz and came. From her home in New Jersey to include her voice to those who warn of increasing hatred and anti -Semitism.

“The world has become poisonous,” she told the Associated Press one day before the celebrations in the neighboring Krakow. “I realize that we are facing a crisis again, and that there is a lot of hatred, a lot of lack of confidence, and if we do not stop, it may become worse and worse. There may be another terrible destruction.”

The Nazi German forces killed about 1.1 million people at the location of southern Poland, which was under German occupation during World War II. Most of the victims were Jews who were killed in an industrial scale in the gas rooms, but also from the Poles, the Roma, the Soviet prisoners, the gay, and others who were targeted by the Nazi racist ideology.

The survivors of the elderly camp, some of whom were wearing a blue and white striped scarcity that reminded us of the prison, to the wall of death, where the prisoners were executed, including many Poles who resisted their country’s occupation.

Polish President André Doda, whose country lost six million citizens during the war. Carry and march with the director of the Auschwitz-Birkinao State Museum, Pioter Siminsky. At the wall, the two men bowed their heads, and they mastered the prayer and a painting of the cross.

Doda told reporters after that: “We, the Polish, who built the Germans on their lands – which were occupied by the Nazis at that time – this genocide and this detention camp, today we have become memory guards,” Doda told reporters.

He talked about “unimaginable damage” to a large number of people, especially the Jewish people.

“Our duty … to remember”

In general, the Germans killed six million Jews from all over Europe, and they annihilated two -thirds of Europe and a third of Jews all over the world. In 2005, the United Nations set on January 27 as the International Holocaust Day.

Throughout Europe, officials and others stopped remembering.

“With the last of the survivors, it is our duty as Europeans to remember indescribable crimes and honor the memories of the victims.”

Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinski, who leads a country that defends itself against the brutal Russian invasion, placed a candle on the memorial of the Holocaust in two doors Yar the day before in Kiev, where tens of thousands of Jews were executed during the Nazi occupation. On Monday, he arrived in Poland to attend the anniversary.

“The evil that seeks to destroy the life of the entire nations is still present in the world.”

The anniversary commemorative ceremony will reach its peak later on Monday when world leaders and members of the royal family join the elderly survivors of the camp, and the youngest of them in the eighties, in Berkinao, the part of Auguschests in which the mass killings of Jews occurred.

However, politicians were not asked to speak this year. Due to the progress of the survivors, they are expected to reach about 50 people, the organizers chose to make them a center for celebrations. Ronald Lauder, President of the World Jewish Conference, will also speak.

The world leaders, including Trudeau, attend

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was expected to attend.

Before the ceremony, Trudeau met the Canadian survivors of Auschwitz who also made the trip to Poland. This may be the last major international trip that Trudeau is making as prime minister before choosing the leader of the next liberal party on March 9.

In a statement posted on x SundayTrudeau wrote: “80 years ago, the Auschwitzino detention and extermination camp was liberated, which ended the systematic killing and genocide committed by the Nazi regime there,” Trudeau wrote.

“Tomorrow, I will join my colleagues from world leaders at the Auschwitz Berkinao camp to honor the Holocaust victims, stand against the escalation of anti -Semitism and the denial of Holocaust, and reaffirm our promise: this will never happen again.”

Among the other leaders are expected to attend German advisor Olaf Schultz and President Frank Walter Steinmeier. Germany has never sent two state representatives to attend the celebrations before, according to the German News Agency (dpa).

It is a sign of Germany’s continuous commitment to take responsibility for the crimes committed by the country, even with an extremist right -wing party for increasing support in recent years.

French President Emmanuel Macron will attend after he stood up to a minute of silence at the memorial of the Holocaust in Paris.

There will also be the King of Britain Charles III, along with the kings and queens of Spain, Denmark and Norway.

The Russian actors in the past were major guests in the celebrations of the anniversary of the Soviet liberation of the camp on January 27, 1945, and the heavy losses incurred by the Soviet forces in defeating the Allies to Nazi Germany. But they have not welcomed since the comprehensive Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The Kremlin said that Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a message to the participants in which he said, “We will always remember that the Soviet soldier has crushed this horrific and comprehensive evil and achieved victory that will remain his greatness forever in the history of the world.”

Putin said: “Russian citizens are direct descendants and caliphs for the generation of the victors.” He added: “We will continue to address attempts to rewrite the legal and moral judgment on the Nazi butchers and those inciting them in principle and firm.”