President Andrzej Duda took part in the March of the Living in the former German death camp Auschwitz. During the ceremony at the International Monument to the Victims of the Birkenau Camp, the president emphasized that we were commemorating the victims of the Holocaust so that nothing like this would happen again in the world.

“After all, we always say that we condemn all hatred, that we participate in the March of the Living and we commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, so that nothing like this would happen in the world again. We all speak about it with deep conviction and we know very well that this terrible, unimaginable crime came from the hatred instilled in the German nation – a nation of great culture and great history. It is difficult to imagine it at all”, emphasized Andrzej Duda.

The president said that today we listen with disbelief and read transcripts of conversations that ordinary Russians conduct with their relatives – soldiers fighting in Ukraine.

“These are conversations of ordinary people and hatred is felt in these conversations, often statements are made that the Ukrainians must be exterminated. It is difficult to understand and hard to believe, as it is possible to behave in this way after what the Jewish nation and other nations Poles, Roma, Sinti, also Russians experienced during World War II”, he assessed.

The President noted that “we are participating in the March of the Living not only to pay tribute to the murdered, but also to show that the State of Israel not only exists but has the right to exist”.

“We come here to show that while during the Second World War, Nazi Germany managed to wipe my country off the map, wipe it out and murder Poles, including Polish Jews, we will never again allow something like this to happen,” he said.

“No more war, no more Holocaust. Eternal memory to the murdered, eternal memory of all victims of hatred,” said Andrzej Duda.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński