January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp.
Affected by the epidemic, the commemoration in Poland was changed to online for the first time.
The ceremony began at 16:00 local time, and the survivors of the Holocaust, Polish President Duda, representatives of Israel and Russia made statements one after another.
Duda said that the Polish government will continue to work to preserve the evidence of the Auschwitz massacre, and the remembrance of the Holocaust and the truth about the Holocaust will be preserved forever.
Contemporary people will continue to send the message to future generations that there will be no more Auschwitz, no more genocide, hatred and racism.
The theme of this year’s commemoration is “The fate of children in Auschwitz concentration camp”.
According to available information, at least 232,000 children and young people were sent to Auschwitz concentration camps during World War II, including 216,000 Jews, 11,000 Roma, about 3,000 Poles, more than 10,000 Belarusians and hundreds of minors from Russia
Ukraine and other countries. People. By the time the Red Army liberated Auschwitz in January 1945, only more than 700 people had survived.
Nazi Germany established a concentration camp in the southern Polish town of Auschwitz in 1940, where at least 1.1 million people were massacred.
The concentration camp was discovered and liberated by the Red Army of the Soviet Union on January 27, 1945.
On November 1, 2005, the 60th plenary session of the General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution to designate the annual day as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
