WARSAW Apr 28The March of the Living takes place in Polish Auschwitz in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, this event is broadcast by Polish Television. The March of the Living is an educational project organized by the international organization of the same name. The first march took place in 1988, the processions at different times were attended by the presidents and prime ministers of Poland and Israel, Nobel Prize winners and clergymen of various denominations. In the past two years, the March of the Living was not held due to the coronavirus pandemic. Polish President Andrzej Duda. At the head of a column of several hundred participants, he headed from under the historic main gate of the former Auschwitz I camp with the inscription «Arbeit macht frei» («Work sets you free») to the place where the Auschwitz II Birkenau concentration camp was located. The main ceremony of the mourning event is taking place at the monument to the victims of Nazism, erected here. The President of Poland in his speech warned against any kind of hatred. «We always repeat that we condemn any hatred. We are on the March of the Living and pay tribute to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust so that nothing like this ever happens again in the world,» Duda said.
Senator: it's almost impossible to lie about Auschwitz The results of a poll conducted in Poland as part of the Sputnik.Opinions project have been made public. It was about the attitude of the Poles to the events of the end of World War II. Senator Oleg Morozov commented on the results of the poll on Sputnik radio. “We are all talking about this with deep conviction and we know for sure that that terrible crime came from hatred, hatred instilled in the German people, a people with a great culture and great history. It is hard to imagine this,” he noted. that in total during the Second World War Poland lost six million citizens, of which more than three million were Polish Jews. Auschwitz-Birkenau (in the Polish city of Auschwitz) was the largest and longest-lived Nazi concentration camp, so it became one of the main symbols Holocaust. About 1.4 million people, of which about 1.1 million were Jews, died at Auschwitz in 1941-1945. The camp was liberated on January 27, 1945 by the troops of the Red Army. In 1947, a museum was created on the site of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. In 1979, it was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
