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Monarchs, presidents and prime ministers will be among those who gather in Poland at the largest and most notorious of the Nazi extermination camps, where 1.1 million people – mainly Jews – perished, either from asphyxiation in the gas chambers or from starvation, exhaustion and disease.

But none of them will be let near a microphone, in a first for a major anniversary of the liberation. The Auschwitz museum has banned all speeches by politicians at the event, which will mark 80 years since the day Soviet troops liberated the camp in 1945.

Only Auschwitz survivors will speak in what is likely to be the last major commemoration when many are still alive and healthy enough to travel.

“We want to focus on the last survivors that are among us and on their history, their pain, their trauma and their way to offer us some difficult moral obligations for the present,” Piotr Cywinski, director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, said. “There will be no political speeches at all.”

https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/eighty-years-after-auschwitz-survey-reveals-shocking-lack-of-holocaust-awareness-20250126-p5l796.html
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