World leaders to join commemorations marking 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation

Source: CNN

World leaders will be in Poland Monday to mark Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

Britain’s monarch King Charles, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron are among those attending the event, which will begin in a tent erected over the former death camp’s infamous entrance gate.

All of Auschwitz’s remaining survivors are invited to the commemorations and can bring one person for support.

“We are fully aware of how physically demanding and emotionally taxing attending the commemoration event at the site of the former camp can be for them,” the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum said in a statement.

Michael Bornstein, who survived for seven months inside Auschwitz as a child, said that “nothing will be easy about returning.”

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