President Higgins visited Poland, to join other Heads of State at Auschwitz for the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The event paid tribute to the survivors and highlighted the importance of all efforts to ensure that the horrors of the Holocaust are never forgotten.
The year 2020 marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp in which more than 1.1 million people were murdered – nearly one million of whom were Jews.
The year 2020 also commemorated two other, related events: the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Stockholm Declaration, from which the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance was established, and the 15th anniversary of the UN General Assembly’s adoption of January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The President’s programme of engagements in Krakow also included visits to the historic centre of Jewish life in the city and to the ghetto created in 1941.
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Related events:
- President meets with the President of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland (2020)
- President visits the Jewish centres of Kraków (Kazimierz and Podgórze) (2020)
- President attends the Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration (2020)
- President delivers keynote address at Holocaust Memorial Day (2019)
- President participates in The Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration (2015)
- President attends the National Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration (2012)
