Polish president Andrzej Duda and Croatian president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic will attend the ceremony marking the 71st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The Polish president is an honorary patron of the commemoration which will take place on January 27; Its theme will be “Returns.”
The ceremony will be attended by dozens of survivors and their relatives. The day before the ceremony there will be a meeting with Andrzej Pilecki, the son of Witold Pilecki, a Polish resistance fighter who was voluntarily imprisoned in Auschwitz. After escaping from the camp, he authored the first comprehensive Allied intelligence report on the genocide in Auschwitz and on the Holocaust. In 1948 he was sentenced to death for treason by the communist authorities.
“Remembering all the victims, in a special way, during the upcoming anniversary, we want to mention people who, despite enormous trauma, attempted to return to normal life,” says Piotr Cywinski, director of the Auschwitz Museum, in a statement.
–JTA
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