European leaders are marking 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp built by the Nazis during World War II in Poland, and have called for the memory of the Holocaust not to be forgotten.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz today expressed his solidarity with the victims of the concentration and extermination camps in Nazi Germany.
"Sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, friends, neighbors, grandparents: more than a million individuals with hopes and dreams were murdered by Germans in death camps. We mourn their deaths. And we express our deepest condolences," Scholz wrote on the network. social X.
"We will never forget them, neither today nor tomorrow," said the German prime minister, referring to the victims of Nazi concentration and extermination camps during World War II.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose country has been fighting a Russian invasion for three years, today called on the world to "stop evil from winning".
"The memory of the Holocaust is gradually fading away. We must not allow it to be forgotten," said Zelensky, himself of Jewish origin.
"Everyone's mission is to do everything possible to prevent evil from winning," he added, in a clear reference to Russia.
French President Emmanuel Macron vowed today that his country "will not give in to anti-Semitism in all its forms."
"France's universalism is fueled by these struggles (...)," he wrote in the guest book of the Shoah Memorial this morning in Paris.
Polish President Andrzej Duda said that "Poles are the guardians of the memory" of the victims of the Nazis in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camps, which were liberated by the Soviet army 80 years ago.
It is estimated that 1.1 million people lost their lives at Auschwitz, the majority of them Jews. In total, it is estimated that around six million Jews were killed during World War II by the Nazis.
Some 60 world leaders are taking part today in events marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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