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Auschwitz director compares suffering of Ukrainians to WWII deaths

THE Piotr Sivinskidirector of his Memorial Auschwitz he compared the deaths of Ukrainians to those of his own citizens Second World War who lost their lives at the hands of the Nazis.

“Similar, sick megalomania, similar thirst for power and similar myths of uniqueness, greatness, primacy… only written in Russian. Innocent people are dying en masse in Europe, again,” Piotr Szyvinski told guests at the ceremony marking the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp by the Soviet army.

“Warsaw’s Wola district, Zamoiszczyzna, Orandur and Lidice are today called Butsa, Irpin, Hostomel, Mariupol and Donetsk,” he added, referring to areas where mass cleansing took place during World War II and locations where Ukraine and the its allies accuse Russian forces of committing atrocities.

During today’s ceremonies, Holocaust survivors wearing hats and scarves with blue and white stripes – the colors of the prisoners’ uniforms – lit candles at the remains of a gas chamber.

The Auschwitz was established in 1940 in occupied Poland and initially housed Polish political prisoners. It then became the largest of the extermination camps where Adolf Hitler’s “Final Solution” plan was put into action, namely the extermination of all Jews. The camp was liberated by the Red Army on January 27, 1945.

Russia was not invited to this year’s festivities because of the war in Ukraine.

Source: News Beast

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