"The Lost Family" - Commemorating the 63rd Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum will commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz at a ceremony on September 27, 2008. This year, the Museum is dedicating the observances to the tragedies of the families of many faiths and ethnic backgrounds that suffered and perished in the camp. The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, and the First Lady, Maria Kaczyńska, are the honorary patrons of the event.
During the ceremony at the Sauna at the Birkenau site, former prisoners who were deported to Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto, the Zamość region, and Warsaw will recount the tragedies that befell their own families. State officials-Minister in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka and Deputy Minister of Culture Tomasz Merta-and members of the diplomatic corps.
Students from the Stanisław Konarski Secondary School in Oświęcim and members of the local Roma community will read passages from accounts by former prisoners and furnish musical accompaniment. The ceremony will conclude with a procession to the Monument at the Birkenau site for the lighting of candles and prayers by clergy of various faiths.
The theme of this year's commemoration, "The Lost Family", reflects two historical anniversaries that we are marking in 2008. Sixty-five years ago, the Germans opened two so-called "family camps" in Birkenau-first for Sinti and Roma, and the second for Jewish families deported from the ghetto in Theresienstadt. Both of these family camps were later liquidated.
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The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum will commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz at a ceremony on September 27, 2008. This year, the Museum is dedicating the observances to the tragedies of the families of many faiths and ethnic backgrounds that suffered and perished in the camp. The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, and the First Lady, Maria Kaczyńska, are the honorary patrons of the event.
During the ceremony at the Sauna at the Birkenau site, former prisoners who were deported to Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto, the Zamość region, and Warsaw will recount the tragedies that befell their own families. State officials-Minister in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka and Deputy Minister of Culture Tomasz Merta-and members of the diplomatic corps.
Students from the Stanisław Konarski Secondary School in Oświęcim and members of the local Roma community will read passages from accounts by former prisoners and furnish musical accompaniment. The ceremony will conclude with a procession to the Monument at the Birkenau site for the lighting of candles and prayers by clergy of various faiths.
The theme of this year's commemoration, "The Lost Family", reflects two historical anniversaries that we are marking in 2008. Sixty-five years ago, the Germans opened two so-called "family camps" in Birkenau-first for Sinti and Roma, and the second for Jewish families deported from the ghetto in Theresienstadt. Both of these family camps were later liquidated.
more: :: Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau w O¶wiêcimiu EN ::
