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Canadian premier to attend events marking anniversary of Auschwitz death camp liberation

He will be accompanied by Canadian Holocaust survivors as well as Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, Deborah Lyons

OTTAWA, January 22. /TASS/. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will attend memorial events to mark the 80th anniversary of liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau (Oswiecim) death camp liberation.

"The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced that he will travel to Poland, from January 26 to 28, 2025, to mark 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp," the Canadian government’s press service said.

He will be accompanied by Canadian Holocaust survivors as well as Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, Deborah Lyons.

More than 1 million Jews, Soviet POWs, and members of the Polish intelligentsia were exterminated in the gas chambers or incinerated in the ovens of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. According to various data, a total of 1.5 to 2 million people of various nationalities, including 15,000 Soviet citizens perished in the notorious camp. More than 200 Soviet soldiers and officers laid down their lives during the struggle to liberate the camp and the neighboring town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz), and succeeded on January 27, 1945. By the decision of the UN General Assembly, this day has been marked across the world as International Holocaust Remembrance Day since 2005.

Russian delegates were not invited to this year's commemorative events.

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