January 27, 2025 will be celebrated the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Eight decades ago, the Red Army liberated 7,000 prisoners from the largest concentration camp complex of the Third Reich, where, in just five years, more than a million Jews perished, most of them on the very day of their arrival. To commemorate this date, television channels are mobilizing their antennas to take the French to the heart of the Nazi horror and pay tribute to the victims of the Holocaust.
Two special broadcasts on France Télévisions
In line with the commemoration, in 2024, of the 80th anniversary of the Liberation, France Télévisions is deploying an exceptional system and offering two special programs on its program schedule for January 27. The first, presented by Julian Bugier from 9 a.m., will follow live the tribute to the victims of the Shoah which will be paid at the memorial in Paris, in the presence of the Head of State, Emmanuel Macron. Testimonies from survivors and insights from historians will punctuate this ceremony.
Then, from 2 p.m., the usual presenter of France 2's “13 Heures” will comment alongside Nathalie Saint-Cricq on the international ceremony which will be held in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, in the presence of survivors, international leaders, representatives of the political, religious and associative world who work for the work of memory. Then at 9:10 p.m. a series of five documentaries will be screened, called “Auschwitz, survivors tell”, which will retrace the history of deportation to Auschwitz through the stories of 44 survivors.
-LCI and BFMTV also mobilized
LCI will offer the same monitoring as France Télévisions to its viewers by following from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., and in the company of Amélie Carrouër, the tribute to the Shoah memorial, then from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. the international ceremony, during which Christophe Moulin, Magali Lunel and Emilie Broussouloux will take turns at the presentation. The day before, the news channel will broadcast at 9 p.m. the documentary “The Last of Auschwitz”, directed by Sophie Nahum, and which will give the floor to 28 of the last survivors “from the worst death factory that Man has ever created”. For its part, BFMTV confirmed to us that a “team will be on site to follow the president to the ceremony” but what“there will be no specific device”. Finally, CNews had not yet communicated on its programming, at the time of publishing these lines.
