Souvenir – This Monday, January 27, will be commemorated the 80th anniversary of the release of the Auschwitz concentration camp. With Polish organizers who must deal with a particular international context
It was January 27, 1945. That day, the Red Army discovered the horror in Auschwitz, 70 kilometers from Krakow. Another concentration and extermination camp, the worst of all. More than a million people had just lost their lives.
Eighty years later, Poland organized this liberation commemoration this Monday, without … the liberators of the 7,000 survivors. Belligerent in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin was not invited. As of September, the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum had been very clear in The cross. “We remember the victims, but we also celebrate freedom. It is difficult to imagine the presence of Russia, which clearly does not understand the value of freedom. Such a presence would be cynical, ”justified Piotr Cywiński.
In any case, this should not displease the Polish people who do not carry its bulky neighbor in their heart. “It is still the country that has invaded them a number of times since the 19th century,” explains Jean-Charles Szurek, Research Director emeritus in CRNS and specialist in the region. “The Russians are feared and seen as the hereditary enemy. »»
Netanyahu controversy
Since then, other presences have given cold sweats to the organizers. At the end of November, the International Criminal Court (ICC) thus issued international judgments against Benyamin Netanyahu … which, in theory, forces its members to arrest the Israeli Prime Minister as soon as it arrives on its territory.
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