President to commemorate Auschwitz Camp liberation

President Peter Pellegrini will attend celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland on Monday (January 27) and meet camp survivors with Slovak ethnic background, the President's Office press department announced on Sunday.

Approximately 30,000-35,000 Jews were deported from Slovakia to Auschwitz-Birkenau, out of which only about 350 survived.

The Slovak delegation will include also representatives of the Central Union of the Jewish Religious Communities in Slovakia, the Holocaust Museum in Sered and the Slovak National Museum.

The event is going to be held under the auspices of Polish President Andrzej Duda, with the turnout expected to reach 3,000, including dozens of Holocaust survivors. Top representatives from about 50 countries of the world will travel to Poland for the ceremony.

Source: TASR