President Alar Karis will attend a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland and remembering the victims of the Holocaust.
“Auschwitz has become a symbol of the horrors of the Second World War which must never be repeated,” the head of state remarked. “Our recollections keep the victims’ stories alive: the millions of people who experienced such terrible suffering and met their end in Auschwitz and other concentration camps established by the Nazis.”
The ceremony will be attended by high-level representatives from around 50 countries. Royal invitees include King Charles III of the United Kingdom, King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium, King Frederik and Queen Mary of Denmark, Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, Crown Prince Håkon of Norway and Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden.
Other heads of state in attendance will be President Emmanuel Macron of France, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany, President Sergio Mattarella of Italy, President Andrzej Duda of Poland, President Alexander Stubb of Finland and President Edgars Rinkēvičs of Latvia.
Also taking part in the ceremony will be Estonia’s ambassador to Poland, Miko Haljas.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day has been marked in Estonia since 2002.
More information about the ceremony being held on the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland can be found online at https://www.auschwitz.org/en/home-page-80/.
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