Yesterday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, on the margins of a commemorative event to mark 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp in Oświęcim, Poland.
Polish President Andrzej Duda remembered the victims of the Nazis at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site, as commemorations got under way on Monday to mark 80 years since the death camp was liberated towards the end of World War II.
Monday's ceremony is widely being treated as the last major observance that any notable number of survivors will be able to attend.
Holocaust survivors and world leaders have begun to gather in Poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
President Alar Karis will attend a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland and remembering the victims of the Holocaust.
Andrzej Duda is the president of Poland, an increasingly important economic and geopolitical force in Europe. On Tuesday, Jan. 21, Duda joins Washington Post columnist David Ignatius to discuss the war in Ukraine,
Holocaust survivors and world leaders attended ceremonies in Poland on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
KRAKOW, Poland (OSV News) -- "God did not create Auschwitz, God created man," said Cardinal Grzegorz Rys of Lodz after the Jan. 27 commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazis' biggest death camp -- Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim,
Holocaust survivors and scholars said the international community’s abandonment of the Jewish state belies its promises to learn from the genocide. By Canaan Lidor in Oswiecim, Poland, JNS As world leaders and dignitaries gathered Monday at the Auschwitz Museum for a Holocaust commemoration ceremony,
Fifty surviving prisoners, political leaders from many European countries, and hundreds of other people marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz in southern Poland on 27 January.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday stressed Germany's enduring responsibility for the Holocaust as leaders and survivors marked 80 years since Soviet troops liberated the Nazi-run death camp Auschwitz.
Around 50 survivors of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz gathered together for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp.