Trudeau meets with Canadian Holocaust survivors, Polish leaders as he marks 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp – ipolitics
Jan 27, 2025
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After arriving in Poland yesterday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to join other world leaders to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp, which, “as the largest camp under Hitler’s regime, became one of the most important symbols of the Holocaust, the genocide that killed six million Jews, with one million murdered in Auschwitz Birkenau alone,” as noted in the advisory sent out by his office last week.
“The Nazis also killed 500,000 Roma and Sinti, and millions of others, including ethnic Poles. The persecution, murder, and unimaginable inhumanity of the Holocaust marked one of the darkest chapters in our history, Eighty years later, let us renew the vow: ‘Never again’.”
Before attending the official commemoration ceremony, Trudeau will meet privately with Canadian Holocaust survivors in Kraków and visit the Auschwitz Research Centre on Hate, Extremism and Radicalization in Oświęcim.
