Schedule of events
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the commemoration of the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz will exceptionally not be held at the Memorial, but online.
The broadcast will begin on 27 January 2021 at 16.00 CET.
76th ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF THE GERMAN NAZI CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU
16.00
Messages of Survivors
Zdzisława Włodarczyk
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Official addresses
Poland - President Andrzej Duda
Israel - Deputy Ambassador, Charge d'affaires Tal Ben-Ari Yaalon
Russia - Ambassador Sergey Andreyev
Word of thanks of the director of the Auschwitz Memorial
Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński
Prayers
Rabbi Michael Schudrich
Roman Catholic Bishop Roman Pindel
Orthodox Bishop Atanazy
Evangelical-Augsburg Bishop Adrian Korczago
Around 17.00
Online debate: „The influence of war and the Holocaust on the formation of a child's identity”
Lea Balint - Holocaust Survivor
Melissa Hacker - President of the Kindertransport Association
Janina Rekłajtis - Auschwitz Survivor
Moderation: Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński - Auschwitz Memorial Director