<h6><strong>Eduardo González</strong></h6> <h4><strong>The King and Queen of Spain will attend this Monday in Brzezinka (Poland) the commemorative events of the 80th anniversary of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp, where more than a million people were murdered, most of them Jews.</strong></h4> According to the Royal House, Don Felipe and Doña Letizia will attend the commemoration in an event that will bring together leaders from around the world. The ceremony will take place in a tent that will be set up at the entrance to the main gate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau II camp. During the event, many Holocaust survivors will give their testimony of remembrance of the horror. The events coincide with the commemoration of the International Day of Annual Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, adopted by the UN General Assembly and the European Parliament in 2005 and celebrated on January 27 of each year, as this is the date on which the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp was liberated. In Spain, the commemoration of this day was established at the Council of Ministers held on December 10, 2004. Until members of the Red Army liberated the camp exactly 80 years ago, the Nazis had murdered 1.1 million people in Auschwitz, most of them Jews, but also prisoners of other countries and nationalities. It will be an event full of symbols, such as the solitary transport wagon that will be placed at the entrance of the camp. It is one of the original freight wagons in which Nazi officers loaded the Jews to transport them by train to the extermination camp. The Senate will also host this Monday, as every year on this date, the commemoration of the Official Day of Holocaust Remembrance and the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity, organized by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain and the Sefarad-Israel Center. The event will be chaired by the president of the Senate, Pedro Rollán, and will include the participation of the secretary of state for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez, the president of the FCJE, David Obadía, the vice president of the State Council of the Gypsy People, Carmen Santiago, the vice president of Amical Mauthausen and other camps, Concepción Díaz Berzosa, and the general director of the Sefarad-Israel Center, Jaime Moreno Bau, who will act as master of ceremonies. Attendees will be able to hear the testimony of Albert Barbouth, a 92-year-old Frenchman of Turkish origin who managed to survive the barbarity. Two days later, on Wednesday, the European Parliament will mark the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust with a speech in Brussels by Corrie Hermann, 92, daughter of Hungarian Pál Hermann, one of the greatest cellists of his time who was murdered by the Nazis in a concentration camp in the Baltic in 1944. Hermann will tell the story of her father and speak about his tragic fate and work during the commemorative plenary session. Roberta Metsola, the President of the Parliament, will give an opening speech, followed by a musical performance of Pál Hermann's work. A minute's silence will then be held in the Chamber, and the event will end with a performance of Maurice Ravel's Kaddish.
