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70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp and the International Holocaust Remembrance Day
 

On the 27th of January, 2015, Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Vilnius organized the commemorational event, dedicated for the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp and the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The documentary „The Liberation of Auschwitz“ (2005, Chronos-Media GmbH in Berlin and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum), showing the original footage from 1945 concentration camp, was screened during the event.

Director of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum Markas Zingeris spoke about the importance of this event and the authenticity of the documentary “The Liberation of Auschwitz”. M. Zingeris remembered the story of his mother, the prisoner of Shutoff concentration camp, and the Russian soldier, who saved her life: “It’s not the holocaust histories, but the real scenes of the holocaust”, said the Director.

The exhibition “They risked Their Lives – Poles, who saved the Jews during Holocaust” was opened this evening. Exhibition is based on the memorabilia of the Righteous and the testimony of the witnesses. Poles, which were saving the Jews under the Nazi occupation, faced the death sentence what wasn’t the case in the Western Europe. Thousands of hundreds of Poles were not afraid to countervail against the evil. They risked their own and their families’ lives saving thousands of Polish Jews. Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies in Jerusalem awarded 6454 citizens of Poland with the title of Righteous Among the Nations. Exhibition “They Risked Their Lives – Poles, who saved the Jews during Holocaust” shows Polish faces, people, who were saving Jews. Presents their histories, disclosing their motives in the historical Nazi occupied Poland’s context.

 

Mr. Markas Zingeris
The director of the VGSJM

 

 

 

 


Mr. M. Zingeris and Mr. J. Czubinski opens the exhibiotion "They Risked their lifes – Poles who saved Jews during Holocaust“

In the few moments of time you will become the witness of the darkest pages of humanity and will experience the sadness and the sorrow. First of all, despite all of this, I believe this exhibition will give hope. The hope, letting to stay human no matter the size of the tragedy”, said the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Lithuania Jaroslaw Czubinski during the opening of the exhibition.

 

 

Mr. Jaroslaw Czubinski
The Ambassador of the Republic of Poland

The full speech of J. Czubinski

 

Yehuda Gidron, Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of Israel to Lithuania, recently established in Vilnius, also delivered the speech in this occasion. According to Y. Gidron, the Righteous Among the Nations should inspire us all as well as the generations to come. 

 
 

Mr. Yehuda Gidron
The Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of Izrael

The full speech of Y. Gidron

Just before the screening of the documentary “The Liberation of Auschwitz” Sister Michaela Rak from “The Sisters of Merciful Jesus” Congregation and the Head of the Blessed Sopocko Hospice shared her own remembrance about her mother, who was imprisoned in Majdanek concentration camp for saving the Jews. Sister finished her speech quoting her mother: “We can’t be afraid, then other person is in need for help”, her mother gave an answer to the question, asked if she wasn’t scared helping people. M. Rak pointed out that it was important for her to share these mother’s words on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of Auschwitz liberation.

Sister Michaela Rak
 
   
Visitors of the exhibition

 

VGSJM and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Vilnius info.
Updated on the 2nd of August, 2015.

 

Modified: 3/30/2015
Information
2017.03.01

 

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