Today marks the 80th anniversary of the closing of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, where 1.1 million people were killed, more than 90 percent of whom were Jews. The Chairwoman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Željka Cvijanović, will attend the commemorative ceremony in Poland.
A large number of world and European officials, heads of state and government, as well as representatives of numerous international organizations will attend the commemoration, the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina announced.
1,300,000 people from Europe passed through Auschwitz-Birkenau, a Nazi German concentration camp in occupied Poland during World War II, of whom 1,100,000 were killed.
Around 900,000 were killed in gas chambers, shot or starved to death immediately upon arrival, which is why Auschwitz has been called the most infamous death camp.
In November 2005, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly unanimously adopted a Resolution designating January 27 as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
On that date in 1945, Soviet troops liberated the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. For 60 years, efforts were made to uncover the historical, cultural, psychological, and civilizational causes that enabled the pogrom of the Jews, as well as to find a suitable remedy so that it would never happen again to anyone.
Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp established by Nazi Germany.
