First trip of the kings this year. Don Felipe and Doña Letizia will attend the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of the Auschwitz extermination field, which is close to Krakow. The historic Summit, dated Liberation Day, on January 27, 1945, pays tribute to the millions of victims of the Holocaust during World War II. Together with the kings of Spain will be Carlos III and other European heads of state. Trump will be missing.
Felipe VI and Queen Letizia travel accompanied by the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres. Next to them, representatives from 50 countries and 20 heads of state are. Among them are Carlos III, the United Kingdom monarch.
From the United States, President Donald Trump has commissioned the responsibility of representing his country to Steve Witkoff, sent from his administration for the Middle East, already Howard Lutnick, secretary of Commerce. The commemoration has also been involved in a certain controversy due to speculation about the possible assistance of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamín Netanyahu.
Between the Royals, Felipe and Matilde, Reyes de los Belgas; those of Holland, Guillermo Alejandro and Máxima; The heir prince Haakon of Norway, Los Reyes Federico and Mary of Denmark, the heir of the great Ducado of Luxembourg, Guillaume, and also Princess Victoria of Sweden.
The presidents of Italy, Sergio Mattarella; France, Emmanuel Macron; Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier; Austria, Alexander van der Bellen; and the Polish Andrzej doubts, as well as the president of the European Council, António Costa, and the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola. The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, will also attend,
The commemoration of this 80th anniversary will also have some survivors of the concentration camp established by the Nazis in 1940, which was the scenario of the extermination of at least 1.1 million people, mainly Jews.
The main act will take place in the afternoon, at 15:30 Spanish time, when the tribute to the victims is requested. Commemorative acts will focus on the release of the extermination field and the global impact of genocide, with special emphasis on the need to achieve free hate communities.
What will the act of the 80th anniversary be
The anniversary symbol will be a merchandise train car that will be placed in front of the main door of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau field. Since 2009, this train car was in the middle of the discharge ramp of the old Birkenau field, in the place where the doctors of the SS selected the deported Jews, directing most of them to death in the cameras of gas. The train car is dedicated to the memory of some 420,000 Jews of Hungary who were deported to Auschwitz from May to July 1944.
It is not the first time that Don Felipe and Doña Letizia come to this commemoration, since five years ago they were in the same extermination field on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of their release.
Then they also paid tribute to the victims of the Holocaust with a floral offering in the so -called death wall, before which thousands of people were shot, and crossed the door of Auschwitz I, in which the registration in German is located ” Work makes you free. “
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