In Poland, the heads of state honored the memory of the victims of the Auschwitz camp

The events were attended by representatives from more than 50 countries – 20 presidents, 7 monarchs, in particular, King of the United Kingdom Charles III. Ministers, diplomats and representatives of international organizations were also present. But the most important guests are the former prisoners. They are getting smaller every year. About fifty surviving, this year from different countries of Europe and the United States from different countries of Europe and the United States. They are 90 or more years old. Some of them got into the camp as young children. Several former prisoners made speeches and spoke about their memories of being in the Nazi torture.

Friedman considers his birthday on January 27. When she was released from the concentration camp, she was only 6.5 years old. She got there with her mother. He says the memories are still alive and painful. The former prisoner tells how they were taken to Auschwitz.

“It was hot, hunger and thirst. I remember how stunned I was. She held her mother’s hand firmly in a dark cattle car and it lasted countless hours. I remember the desperate screams of women, I remember their prayers. It penetrated simply into my soul and haunts to this day. We were brought to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The sky was tightened with smoke, and in the air was heard a terrible stench. Although I was small, I realized what was happening. There were ranks of naked women around, ”says 87-year-old Friedman’s product, who came from the United States.

The woman tells that she witnessed as people led to execution:

Friedman came to Auschwitz with her family. She says the voice of everyone surviving is extremely important now. “Today, everyone has the responsibility not only to remember that it is very important, but also to warn and teach people that only more hatred is born of hatred, that even more murder is generated from murder,” the former prisoner said.

99-year-old Leon Weintraub got to the Auschwitz camp in August 1944: “My mom and her sister were tortured on the same day in the gas chamber and the bodies were burned in the crematorium. Then the procedure for depriving us of humanity began. We were undressed and taken away by all personal belongings, shaved, often with the skin. During disinfection, everything is very hell. They threw us some rags and showed us on a pile of wooden shoes. I suffered a lot because I was lonely and separated from the family. I was very annoyed with black smoke, which was burned by burnt meat. He went from the chimneys continuously. ”

After the end of the war, Leon Weintraub became a doctor in Poland, but in February 1969 because of the growing anti -Semitism in the country, he lost his job and was forced to emigrate to Sweden. During his speech, the former prisoner appealed, in particular, to the youth: “Be intolerance to all sorts of intolerance, which will manifest themselves to those who differ in skin color, faith or sexual orientation.” At the end of his speech, Leon Weintraub asked all those present to stand up and a moment of silence to commemorate the victims of German nationalism.

The ceremony of the 80th anniversary of the release of the Nazi concentration camp “Auschwitz” ended with prayer. After that, the former prisoners, members of state delegations and international organizations honored the memory of the dead – lit the lamps before the symbol of this year’s anniversary measures – a cargo wagon. It is part of the museum’s exposition. In such cars, the Nazis took people to a concentration camp.