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The President of Slovenia at the Memorial
The President of Slovenia, Borut Pahor, visited the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum on May 21. The guest was welcomed by the director of the Museum, Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński. He was accompanied by Wojciech Soczewica, Director General of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.
President Pahor visited Block 5, where personal items looted from the victims, such as shoes, suitcases, glasses, children's clothes, and Jewish prayer shawls, are displayed. He also saw the first crematorium and gas chamber building at the Auschwitz I site.
During the visit, the delegation also saw the space on the first floor of Block 17 reserved for the new national exhibition, to be prepared jointly by the countries of the former Yugoslavia and dedicated to the victims deported from that area.
At the Death Wall in the courtyard of Block 11, where shooting executions were carried out, President Pahor laid a wreath in tribute to all the victims of this German Nazi concentration and extermination camp.
In the second part of his visit, President Pahor visited the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp, including the railway ramp where the Germans carried out the selection of Jews deported to the camp. At the end of the visit, the President laid candles at the monument near the ruins of the gas chambers and crematoria II and III at the main plaque and the plaque in the Slovenian language.
