The kings Philip VI and Letizia attend the ceremony this Monday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenauin Poland, an event that is expected to be attended by other monarchs as well as several European heads of state.
This will be the second time that both visit Auschwitz, where they already they were in 2020 coinciding precisely with the 75th anniversary of the liberation by the Red Army of what was the largest extermination camp in Nazi Germany. Then, they took a short tour of its facilities, through which several hundred Spaniards passed.
The survivors are the main protagonists of the eventwhich has managed to attract the attendance of a good part of the reigning monarchs in Europe as well as the presidents of countries such as France or Germany, all of them aware that given their advanced age it will be increasingly difficult to have the presence of those who lived for tell it after going through Auschwitz.
It is estimated that some 1.3 million people passed through the concentration and extermination camp, to which deportations began in 1942, of which 1.1 million were exterminatedmainly Jews.
The ceremony will start at 4:00 p.m.s with the welcome of one of the survivors, after which several more will take the floor to convey their messages both to those present and to the world 80 years after the liberation of the camp.
The event, which also includes words of gratitude from the Museum director, Piotr Cywinskiwill be punctuated with several pieces of music, including two works by composers who were murdered at Auschwitz.
To finish, after the Jewish mourning prayerhe kaddishit is planned that all guests, both survivors and heads of state and dignitaries present, will pay tribute to the more than one million victims of Auschwitz.
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