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Far right protest during Auschwitz camp liberation commemoration
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS JANUARY 27, 2019 / 12:34 PM / UPDATED 9 HOURS AGO
Far right protest during Auschwitz camp liberation commemoration
OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) - Dozens of Polish far right nationalists gathered at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland on Sunday to protest at the same time as officials and survivors marked the 74th anniversary of the camp’s liberation in an annual ceremony.
The two parties gathered in different parts of the camp, now an open-air museum, and did not encounter each other. It was the first time the far right has held a protest at Auschwitz at the annual event, which is also International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day.
At the official ceremony on Sunday, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and other government officials were joined in prayer by some of the last remaining survivors of the death camp.
In another location at the site, far right protesters wrapped in Polish flags, some stamped with the words “Polish Holocaust”, laid flowers and sang the Polish national anthem.
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Far right protest during Auschwitz camp liberation commemoration
OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) - Dozens of Polish far right nationalists gathered at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland on Sunday to protest at the same time as officials and survivors marked the 74th anniversary of the camp’s liberation in an annual ceremony.
The two parties gathered in different parts of the camp, now an open-air museum, and did not encounter each other. It was the first time the far right has held a protest at Auschwitz at the annual event, which is also International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day.
At the official ceremony on Sunday, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and other government officials were joined in prayer by some of the last remaining survivors of the death camp.
In another location at the site, far right protesters wrapped in Polish flags, some stamped with the words “Polish Holocaust”, laid flowers and sang the Polish national anthem.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-holocaust-memorial-poland/far-right-protest-during-auschwitz-camp-liberation-commemoration-idUSKCN1PL0N9
