In Auschwitz, Macron calls “not to give in to anti -Semitism” in the name of “the universalism of France”

Emmanuel Macron promised on Monday that “we will not give in to” anti-Semitism in all its forms “on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the release of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp.” The universalism of France is nourished by these Fighting and is also found in this imprescriptible, “wrote the head of state on the Golden Book of the Shoah Memorial which he visited on Monday morning.

These commemorations are “one of the last moments when we can all benefit from the presence, testimonies, survivors of the Shoah”, it was underlined in the entourage of the president. As part of the commemorations of the release of the Auschwitz camp, the president and his wife Brigitte Macron will participate on Monday afternoon in Poland in the international ceremony organized on the Auschwitz-Birkenau site in the presence of other foreign leaders.

They will then go to the French pavilion, which has welcomed a permanent exhibition from France since 1979 in Auschwitz, dedicated to the memory of the French victims deported to the camp.

For his part, Prime Minister François Bayrou will proceed on Monday at 6.30pm at the revival of the flame of the unknown soldier under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in the presence of representatives of the Union of deportees of Auschwitz. In Paris, the Minister of Education Elisabeth Borne, whose father had been deported to Auschwitz, is expected at the end of the morning at the Shoah Memorial. The Minister responsible for the fight against discrimination, Aurore Bergé, will inaugurate the memorial garden of the old synagogue in Strasbourg before exchanging with college students on the fight against negationism and anti -Semitism.

The President of the Republic gave significant relief to the commemorations of the end of the Second World War, especially around the Allied landings in Normandy and Provence, as well as the different stages of the Liberation. He will still be on February 2 in Colmar, Alsace, the last city freed from the German occupation in French territory. Several major meetings are then planned to commemorate on May 8, 1945, the date of the end of the war with the capitulation of Nazi Germany.