Concentration camp. This is about two hours. Ladies and gentlemen, let me welcome you to todays presentation. Let me welcome the former inmates and the survivors. Let me welcome all the english guests from all over the world with representives of churches and religious communities and including representatives of the jewish communities and representatives of the roma. Now i am asking the president of the republican of poland for his address. Todays ceremonys under his patronage. Ladies and gentlemen, and especially you who went through this all the distinguished guests we are in this life where our civilization was down in the place where the plans to destroyed men of their dignity was systematically executed where german nazis launched in the sea and a human being was reduced to a number. Ten years ago at the shore, here they kept my family in prison and they burned everyone. Here, they took my name away and they gave me the number. Never again was i myself. I became a number. We are standing in the place where over a Million People were murdered overwhelmingly majority of them being jews frauchl europe, prisoners of war, and many many mothers. We are standing in the place that reminds us of the murdererous nazi ideology that underminds the pillars of the world. It was exactly 70 years ago that a camp was liberated by the troops of the 60th army of the first ukrain of the red army. On that day, in the afternoon, the Infantry Division and freed the remaining parts of the camps. It is with gratitude and respect that we are thinking today about those soldiers. Ladies and gentlemen, what was demonstrated in auschwitz was human contempt for a human being and human dignity. They also wanted to alleviate memory and also a prisoner of auschwitz said they wanted to kill and forget. Each and every one of you survivors of the camp survivors of the hell of hatred and brutality is a guardian of the memory of auschwitz. You are the most important citizens of todays commemoration. Being a guardian of the memory of auschwitz entails not only the remembrance of the crime itself but also a reflection of individuals and nations ideologies. This is the memory of the reggeme, gen phobia that lay the foundations of the collapse of our civilization of the 20th century. In a particular way this is a tragic memory. Since it was against poland the rageme began to execute the genocide plan. In early 1940, the German Occupation of polity decided to go ahead with the campaign thats called ab campaign to exterm nat the polish intelligence here. At the same time the leadership decided to commit mass murder of polish officers. Here at the same time germans formed their concentration camps in auschwitz mainly for polish prisoners at that time. It was expanded later by adding the death camps. The germans make my country part of the exceptional imaginative as a place of extermination of european jews. German nazis made pole vend an eternal cemetery of jews. They ended many jews presence in in our land. This is exactly why poland occupies a role of necessity of the memory of auschwitz and the shaw. What is the memory of auschwitz today . Its mainly a memory of suffering. It is a remembrance of a wound still open and pursing. It is also a memory of a state, a place that took a toll on everyone whoovsh came close. A memory of auschwitz is however also remembering that even in the face of the darkest hole of humanity, the greatest heroes where sanctity is possible. Even sacrificing your own life to keep a prisoner alive. Because here the world is set on being destroyed, but also saved. The words imprinted on the medal awarded to the imagination. They say who so ever takes a single life takes an entire group. Here in particular these words were so true. Ladies and gentlemen for other 70 years, we have been trying to convey to the world, the truth of the hurt inflicted in this hard tomorrow factory. In the name of the truth we wish to fight attempts to vulasify the shaw today. I thank those who receive the talk and speak about this crime. The International Auschwitz and the museum do so in a unique way. Unrecent years, auschwitz built a Foundation Thanks to donors from all over the world has continued efforts to preserve the authenticity of the premises of the camp. You are contributing to the fading of the powerful sign of memory and warning the whole world. And it should be so. Since the memory of auschwitz, its also the memory of the need to defend our values freedom, justice, tolerance, and respect for human rights and freedoms. Years ago, john paul the second said it here that auschwitz is the reckoning with the conscience of humanity. He warned that never can one nation be the love at the cost of another at the price of making the dependence unheard and slaved exploited, even at the price orphincident death. That we shall remember what the violation of nations to help determination and what the violation of the inability of borders on attempt for life and in the case from this place we are condemning all hatred and gen phobia. An auschwitz survivor said that all who forget our duty the duty of the whole europe and the whole world is to remember for they suffered here for you. At this point, ladies and gentlemen, those who survived it is our duty to remember for ourselves and for the future. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, today we all want to listen to the world of the witnesses. Im now asking a former auschwitz inmate to take the floor. [applause] i never let them die. Today, requests letters, searching, waiting and descending for the memory that remains remains remains, miraculous scraps of reality, gone, supposedly necessary. I never let them die. Auschwitz is a place that used to be a home, that my father used to scare us. My brother used to copy some copies for the newspaper. Hundreds of thousands of other jews and people different in the nation, this place baseman the only reality for me. It was a hell that i couldnt get out of. All around us electric barbed wire and rows of grown barracks fencing muds and some figures are muddling through. You cannot tell whether they are old or young, women or men, gas ing crowds of people, all in lousy wet rags with numbers, shaven heads. Those gray bone faces with the legs like sticks wearing those mud clogs. Nothing reminding you of anything remotely human. Default, agony, hunger secrets and those diseases here being an immediate sentence death in a gas chamber. Vulnerable and physical abuse. Refib fined and sfakted torture and death everywhere for anything and everything. You are there so that you cannot be anywhere in the world. To die trembles in mud, covered in excrument and blood, and all this with natures approval that is used by oppressors, the dust of wind and snow and grain and the slaver beyond ones friends and the german songs that they have to sing and you would march there and some of them wouldnt return. And also we were taunted by a german man that the company had been lodged and those columns parked nearby, those had marched to the death chamber. Some would ask, how far is it because i need to feed my children and the smokes and the nazi jewish colonies and those piles of bodies. And we remember it was christmas. On one hand there was a christmas tree. Among the other side there was fire. Fire burns human bodies and the rams and trains long trains. And there was so very much there. For three years i strapped to myself in the seven transformation of hell and illegal in auschwitz, a jewish child that is to go and get food. Many of times did i die i would freeze with fear and passion and pain, this tension that i got at selection and i would look and see the agony of my fellow prisoners with this terrible pain. Every moment was a terrible memory terrible thoughts. Would there be another one . I remember there was this role call and we were standing there. And nobody was picking us up and i had this pleading thought, puthenning thought, maybe one day i will burn this crematorium that is behind me and i will never have experienced a true loves kiss that i have read about, that i read about back in war so. When you are 14 it is a different idea of what that predeath is. But i survived. I lived to see the oppressors defeated and then i saw the nazis burn documents before they would leave columns of people for the march of death. I remember that my arm was capacitated because i was shot by one of the guards. It was the new year. 1945. It was a single shot. The guard aimed at my heart, but he missed and all that happened was my nerve was damaged. I was liberated by te russians in may 1945 from auschwitz. It was one of the two last camps in germany. I lived to see the defeat of those pinchmen. It was something that my mother dreamed of before they took her away from me because she died. It is all fresh in my memory. What im telling you is this. Im reliving those facts, those thoughts all that in human and superhuman that you breathed when you were at auschwitz every single day and night. People who died here are tortured, most of the jews mostly names remain all that remains are ashes spreaded by the wind. And for me, the greatest step is to pass from this memory tell others about how much they desire to live. I want to tell the world about that. And this overwhelming daily terror that i was at. I was 16 and brought back to the ruins and saw the remains with this pain and longing and i must phrase if i could, id rather not call all that. In my memory totally can i be with my loved ones and their presence. Because even the photos would have burned and those images are etched deep in my mind. And through them i can tell right from wrong and i can tell what the reality is like and instinctively i can be vigilant. I can recognize people and these memories actually make the impossible for me and i can reconcile with the fact that people do not really understand what auschwitz was. What is life for a human being. His life . The loved ones . And the life of his nation . This life that is threatened by others people who want to take away somebodys life somebodys possessions, theres this fear. Theres denial. Holocaust, all that terrifies me. I feel out raged because i know what kind of hell all that can turn into if nobody stopped it. The auschwitz citizenship evil. It lingers and is reborn in this growing terror with antisemitism and racism and it dproez through people being decapitated with others watching, the whole world watching. Sometimes when i recall whats happening around us i keep telling myself auschwitz could actually legally exist for years and act for years. If that is possible, all the worst things in the world are possible, but you need to oppose that. You have to oppose all that so that no oppression occurs. And this museum osc, the museum and memorial they are doing great work in management. Theyre all keeping those crafts of documents and mem oirlz and they keep the testimony of eyewitnesses, they preserve all that this knowledge about the life of all those millions of people, people so very close to death, this memory of human strength. Friendship and love. And here i would like to thank from the bottom of my heart to the management of the mooum and to all of you. It is my privilege that i can participate in this common ration of the 70th anniversary of auschwitz liberation. Im just an inmate just the prisoner numbers for a Death Penalty because i was so young and jewish. I would like to thank all of you for the momentous moments we have here and i would like to thank all of you for that in this place that used to be so horrifying. [applause]. Ladies and gentlemen, now a former inmate of auschwitz to take the floor. [applause] Police Department distinguished ladies and gentlemen, dear inmates my fellows, you are in the german concentration camp of auschwitz. As an element that is an enemy of the further night, for jews 2 weeks for priests, a month, for young and healthy, three months. This is how long you have the right to live. No longer than that. Oh and any insubordination or rebellion will be ruthlessly beaten down. For any resistance to authority, attempt to escape, death is the penalty. The only way out from here through the chimney of the crematoria. These are the words that were shouted out by the infantry to us us 728 polish Political Prisoners of the first kachlt on the 14th of june, 1940. They were made our reality with criminal assistance for over four and a half years of existence of the camp at auschwitz. A testimony to this are hundreds of transposes, jews roma, and representatives of several other nations. It was proven by terror hunger selection in the bunkers of the 11 block, and executions at the wall of death. This was from the very first days. In mid 1942 the augusts c concentration camp was transformed into the death camp. To railway ramp every day, our jews from all the captured parts of europe. Ss doctors conduct selections. Women who can work are taken to the blocks of auschwitz one. And then to bid canal. Pregnant women the ailing the old, and children go to the gas chambers. The holocaust takes a deathly toll and to the efficiency of crematoria is still not sufficient for the hingemen. Everyone in auschwitz, several attempts are developed too much Camp Administration provides the labor, cashing plenty of money for the works of the slaves slaving in the hitlerite in the street and mind. The madness of all the people if even mentioned is opposed by te stronger individuals. From the first day, there was a struggle for biological survivor continues, a struggle to take away from death the maximum number of beings and are preservation of human dignity. Within the camp and around the camp there was also an organized resistance a movement managed by the home army polish socialsh party, and the peasants battalion. The dedication of the peelish people from the zone around the camp gid not have a price. Priceless. And efficient forms, selfdefense were escape from the camp. It makes escape to take out documents of ss crimes to talk to the world the truth about the camp, and to fight with the occupants. If you were lucky enough to experience this only 10 of the escapes ended in a success. To the sounds of the sirens special support ss units supported by the german battles who replaced the settled poles went for pursuit and chains. The excruciating yell of the siren inspired fear in the inmates due to the depression but it also gave hope that the world will learn about the crimes of the nazis. I myself heard the siren for the last time late in the evening on the 27th of february 1943 when having escaped from auschwitz, among the floating ice i was crossing the river. That sound continues to vibrate in my self conscience ever since i paid the high price for escaping from the camp. Following the oppression my mother and sister were arrested who was deported to the canal and converted. Luckily, they have lived through that. The merciful fate made it today of the 70th anniversary of the auschwitz camp complex by the red army, together with my colleagues former inmates of auschwitz canal, i can now be standing before the monuments of the victims of nazi in their canal to honor the memory of those who could not survive, those who opted away, let us honor them with a moment of silence. Thanks very much. [applause]. Ladies and gentlemen, im now asking former auschwitz inmate to take the flor o. [applause] i was asked how i survived augusts c. My answer is i do not. Know. I do not know. How many eternities can one have in a single lifetime . I dont know the answer to that, either. Behold, from the inside from remembering, this was the world my father handed to me. Today, 70 years later that command to remember is indeed so very close. Only a survivor of auschwitz to forget the horrific experiences and viewed during the concentration camps, even for one moment is impossible. Witnessing the atrocities committed at the intlns gave me to auschwitz was more than enough to keep me awake at night until the end of time. It is there that the germens welcomed and began to brutalize their deaths. They were ridding families and groups of people, forcing them apart and separating them, often forever. That helps us. Then 70 years later, the daily cruelty and inhuman behavior in the camps is a spear indelibly etched in my mind. The look of pleasure on the murdererous faces as they fortuneered innocent men, women and children is beyond description and lingers in my consciousness. How can one decide of human skeletons, just skin and bones busting an eye. How can i ever forget this men of burdened fresh that permeated the air . Many of us came to auschwitz not knowing each other in life, but most left together in death, traditionally in the form of a white glow smoke. The heart breaking and waking of the children torn from their mothers arms by the brutal action of the torturers will rung in my ears until i am laid to rest. I continue to wonder if the price of this ever penetrated heavens gate. We should remind this continuously came face to face with death. Yet, this was not armory strong. Despite hopelessness, we created life out of the world of darkness and we now remember the all consumed evil we were forced to endure. We survived cannot dare not to forget the many lives who were murdered. For if we were to forget the conscience of mankind would be buried alongside the victims. Today, in this place we are part of the 70th anniversary commemorating the endingf auschwitz, held under the auspices of the government of poland. What an opportunity to expend a meaningful heartfelt message to leaders of all nations to the world at large. We must all remember for if you, the leaders in the world will remember and to teach others to remember then the holocaust and other atrocities as well as the present one in terrorists will have no place on the face of the earth. [applause] but to remember is not enough. Peace. Peace. It is our mutual obligation that of survivors to install in future generations an understanding of what happens when the tragedies and hatred and allowed to flourish. We must all teach our children tolerance and understanding, both at home and in school. For tolerance cannot be shown. It must be told. We all must make clear that hate is never right. And love is never wrong. When i think of holocaust, as i often do, there are few that i consider really hurting. And this should mean my faith in man kind. I saw hesitation, the courageous and harrowing feats of the gentiles who saved jewish lives during the holocaust, all into this category. They endangered their own lives and often that of their family to save the life of a stranger. The gentiles, just as you against millions showed the world that the answer to terror and indifference is involvement and the courage to make moral choices and act in accordance with those choices. They would say as an example of what kind have been done and indictment what was done. And its a moral towards an awith regard of oppression and darkness. His rescuers nobles by day but mothers by charity. Those are even in the hell known as the holocaust, the individual had a choice and they kept us to behave humanly, each three are the only charity. And had the terrorist to act accordingly. [applause] we survivors should come on guard with th