Wiadomość została wysłana.
The Rzeczpospolita newspaper said Netanyahu would be absent from the January 27 observances because of an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has accused Israel’s leader of committing war crimes against Palestinian civilians.
Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Wladysław Teofil Bartoszewski told the paper that Poland, as a signatory to the ICC, is bound to respect the court’s legal orders.
In Netanyahu’s absence, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen is expected to represent Israel at the event, which will bring together Holocaust survivors and leaders from around 20 nations.
Confirmed attendees include French President Emmanuel Macron, Spanish King Felipe VI and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán are not expected to attend, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump have yet to confirm their participation.
Auschwitz-Birkenau, established by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland in 1940, became the most infamous of the German concentration and death camps set up during the Second World War. The vast majority of the 1.1 million people killed on the site were Jews, primarily from Poland and Hungary. Other victims included Poles, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war.
The camp, located around 60 kilometers west of Krakow in southern Poland, was liberated by the Soviet Red Army on January 27, 1945, a date later designated by the United Nations as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It has been preserved as a national memorial since 1947, serving as a somber reminder of the atrocities committed during the conflict.
