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2020-01-27T16:16:44.590Z


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President Reuben (Ruby) Rivlin represents Israel at a ceremony in the extermination camp.

Dozens of leaders from around the world gather Monday near the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland to mark the 75th anniversary of its liberation before the end of World War II. The ceremony is also attended by Holocaust survivors and President Reuben (Ruby) Rivlin.

Photo: Reuters

Earlier, President Reuben (Ruby) Rivlin met with Polish President Andrzej Duda after his Monday meeting with President Rivlin in Poland: "I thank the President for coming to Poland and for the meeting we discussed about relations between the states.

Duda referred to his absence from the ceremony at Yad Vashem and said that he saw that "Poland's participation in the huge campaign against the Nazis was exaggerated" and therefore could not participate. In the pages of Polish history and we remember and commemorate them and expect others to do so, "the Polish president said.

"I was deeply saddened by the fact that Poland's participation in the huge campaign against the Nazis was exaggerated and I could not participate there. I would like to emphasize that the Poles fought for world-wide freedom and many Polish citizens fell in the struggle for freedom in the fight against the Nazis."

Source: israelhayom

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