Poland marks sombre Auschwitz anniversary
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
14.06.2017 15:55
Prime Minister Beata Szydło on Wednesday took part in ceremonies marking 77 years since the first deportation of Polish prisoners to the Auschwitz German Nazi death camp.
PM Beata Szydło at Auschwitz. Photo: PAP/Jacek Bednarczyk
Speaking at the site of the former camp in southern Poland, Szydło said: "The Auschwitz-Birkenau camp is a place sanctified by the blood of over a million innocent victims, people who left a empty space in the hearts of their families and loved ones."
June 14 is marked in Poland as the National Day of Remembrance of Victims of German Nazi Concentration Camps and Extermination Camps.
"The shocking and shameful operation of murder carried out on an industrial scale in concentration camps has left a mark on the world forever,” Szydło said.
“There is no excuse and never will be for these hate crimes. That is why it is so important to convey the truth about those events," she added.
Around 1.1 million people, mostly European Jews, as well as non-Jewish Poles, Roma and Sinti, Soviet POWs and people of many other nationalities, perished at Auschwitz at the hands of the German Nazis occupying Poland during World War II.
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Source: PAP