World leaders and a dwindling group of survivors joined in a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp by the Red Army.
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Translator: “Let’s take seriously what the enemies of democracy preach. We must avoid the mistake of the 1930s, when the world failed to take seriously the Nazi regime.” “We have an obligation not only to remember, which is very, very important, but also to warn and to teach that hatred only begets more hatred. Killing more killing.”
Reporting from Warsaw and Oswiecim, Poland
Dozens of world leaders, including Britain’s king and the president of Ukraine, joined a dwindling group of Nazi death camp survivors on Monday in southern Poland to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Red Army’s liberation of Auschwitz, where more than 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered.
A day of solemn ceremony held near former gas chambers and crematories in the Polish town of Oswiecim, whose name was Germanized to Auschwitz during Hitler’s 1939-1945 occupation of Poland, was shadowed throughout by a resurgence of nationalism in Germany and other European countries.
“Let us avoid the mistake of the 1930s, when the German Nazis were not believed, their intentions to create a state free of Jews, Roma, people with different views and the sick considered unworthy of life were disregarded.”
After prayers were read by Jewish rabbis and Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian priests, Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, led King Charles III of Britain, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron of France and other guests in laying votive candles on a platform in front of a railway car.
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