Roberta Metsola Attends 80th Commemoration of Aushcwitz Liberation

EP President and Maltese MEP Roberta Metsola is currently in Poland attending the 80th anniversary event of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

On 27th January 1945, Soviet forces liberated Auschwitz, revealing the harrowing evidence of genocide.

More than 1.1 million people, predominantly Jewish men, women, and children, were brutally murdered at the camp during the Holocaust.

The camp which now serves as a memorial, reminds not only visitors but millions of people around the world the unimaginable and harrowing atrocities committed by Nazi Germany in World War 2.

To commemorate the anniversary, about 50 survivors of the camp will return to remember its day of liberation.

Heads of state, including King Charles, other European royals, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, will also be in attendance.

Maltese President Myriam Spiteri Debono will also be present at the commemoration event, alongside the majority of world leaders.

However, it is the survivors—most now in their late 80s and 90s—whose voices will take centre stage during the commemorations at the camp, where over 1.1 million people, the majority of them Jewish, were murdered.

Their message remains clear: to share the truth of what occurred here and to ensure such atrocities are never repeated.

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