MARCH OF REMEMBER IN AUSCHWITZ - 14 June
date:12 June 2025 Editor: Editorial
MARCH OF REMEMBER IN AUSCHWITZ - June 14, Saturday | 12:00
Start: The square in front of the Railway Station Oświęcim ul. Rodzińc Śląski
March route: streets of Dworcowa and Campowa - Termination: ul. Obozowa 28
The 14th day of June is simply a date which in Polish national memory should be written in black ink – not only due to the tragic historical burden, but besides due to the fact that for decades it was attempted to push it into the shadow of our collective ignorance.
On that day, in 1940, the first transport of prisoners to the recently created Auschwitz concentration camp was set out from the prison in Tarnów. It was 728 men, only Poles – including scouts, students, soldiers of the September campaign, members of independency organizations, clergymen, officials. Young people, full of hope, who were the backbone of rebirth after the partitions of the Republic. Their only responsibility was Poland's faithfulness and readiness to serve.
Auschwitz began its bloody activity with the extermination of our countrymen. And although it later became a symbol of the extermination of Jews, we must not let the memory of the first victims of this German crime device vanish from history, nor from our hearts.
REMEMBER MARCH IN AUSCHWITZ
June 14, Saturday | 12:00
Start: Square in front of the Auschwitz Railway Station
St. Insurgency of Silesia
March route: Dworcowa and Campowa streets
Completion: 28 Camp Street
Therefore, on this very day – 14 June – we meet each year in Oświęcim, in order to go through the place where 1 of the darkest cards of the German business began. Our goal is to express a deep moral commitment to those who have been tormented here.
While participating in the Memorial March, we pay tribute to the first prisoners of Auschwitz – Poles who were deprived of their lives as part of the German plan to destruct the nation. Our presence, silence, prayer, flame and white-red wreath – all these are signs of memory that transcend time and space. This is the way we as a nation say: we have not forgotten and we will not let forget.
The March of Memory is besides our consequence to the increasingly common lie of the past in which Poles are trying to show not as the first victims, but as co-conspirators of German crimes. It is hard to describe the pain that is born in the heart of a man erstwhile he sees the victim be placed in place of a executioner. This is not only a moral distortion, but besides a real threat to historical truth, to our identity and to the upbringing of future generations.
Unfortunately, it is besides increasingly a weapon of the evil policy of hostile Poland forces. Therefore, in a planet that is increasingly boldly operating half-truth and silence, our march becomes a clear protest against false narrative. We go to show that memory can be a form of resistance—but a worthy and steadfast evidence of faithfulness to truth.
For many years now, the Rota of the independency March, led by Robert Bąkiewicz, have taken the effort to reconstruct the right place for Polish victims of planet War II in collective consciousness – not only ours but besides global ones. We fight not only with lying propaganda, which slanders Poland's good name, but besides with its consequences – which hit our national interests, sovereignty and sense of dignity.
One of the most crucial successes of our activity is the fact that present we can enter the site of the erstwhile German Auschwitz camp with a white-red flag in our hands. It was not so long ago strictly forbidden – it is hard to believe, but for years Poles were banned from commemorating their own national victims under their own banner. This has changed – and it has changed due to the fact that we have not been silent.
As a nation who first resisted German barbarism and who suffered the top losses during planet War II – both in humans and in the achievements of civilization – we have a work to our ancestors and descendants. The work to talk the truth, to proceed with it, even erstwhile it becomes uncomfortable for others.
The memory of Polish victims of Auschwitz is not only a motion of respect for the tormented. It is besides an act of concern for the future – so that our children do not gotta live in a planet where their grandparents are accused of another people's crimes. If not us, who will guarantee that past is not rewritten with individual else's pen?
Unfortunately, despite the passing of more than 8 decades, Germany inactive did not bear real work for the crimes committed in the Polish nation. Until now, Poland has not been paid reparations, looted works of art have not been returned, nor have families murdered been compensated.
Imagine – millions of lives, destroyed cities, burned libraries, robbed museums ... and in consequence we hear about the "gestions of memory" and the "common future" – as if we could sweep all our suffering under the carpet.
It's not just a deficiency of justice. That's mockery. That's why our march is needed – to remind you that past has not been closed, and the injury bill remains open.
In addition, for many years the process of appropriating the memory of Auschwitz has been going on – this place is presented exclusively as a symbol of the extermination of Jews, aside from the fact that Poles were the first prisoners and victims of German terror.
In the face of specified curses, and especially after the appointment of Barbara Engelking – a individual known for controversial, anti-Polish statements – we cannot stay indifferent. It is our work to remind the planet of the truth: Poles were the first. And we will not let that be forgotten!
Therefore, erstwhile again, with all seriousness, let us come to Auschwitz on 14 June. Let us stand together with the white and red flags, where our countrymen died for being Poles.
Let our presence be an expression of homage, but besides of strength—the strength of a nation that does not let its past to be fouled or deny the suffering of its ancestors. I firmly believe that this joint march will be a evidence of conscience towards future generations.
I invitation you with all my heart – do not let us miss you in this very crucial minute of truth.
Paweł Kryszczak
National Coordinator
Rota Association
Independence March
On that day, in 1940, the first transport of prisoners to the recently created Auschwitz concentration camp was set out from the prison in Tarnów. It was 728 men, only Poles – including scouts, students, soldiers of the September campaign, members of independency organizations, clergymen, officials. Young people, full of hope, who were the backbone of rebirth after the partitions of the Republic. Their only responsibility was Poland's faithfulness and readiness to serve.
Auschwitz began its bloody activity with the extermination of our countrymen. And although it later became a symbol of the extermination of Jews, we must not let the memory of the first victims of this German crime device vanish from history, nor from our hearts.
REMEMBER MARCH IN AUSCHWITZ
June 14, Saturday | 12:00
Start: Square in front of the Auschwitz Railway Station
St. Insurgency of Silesia
March route: Dworcowa and Campowa streets
Completion: 28 Camp Street
Therefore, on this very day – 14 June – we meet each year in Oświęcim, in order to go through the place where 1 of the darkest cards of the German business began. Our goal is to express a deep moral commitment to those who have been tormented here.
While participating in the Memorial March, we pay tribute to the first prisoners of Auschwitz – Poles who were deprived of their lives as part of the German plan to destruct the nation. Our presence, silence, prayer, flame and white-red wreath – all these are signs of memory that transcend time and space. This is the way we as a nation say: we have not forgotten and we will not let forget.
The March of Memory is besides our consequence to the increasingly common lie of the past in which Poles are trying to show not as the first victims, but as co-conspirators of German crimes. It is hard to describe the pain that is born in the heart of a man erstwhile he sees the victim be placed in place of a executioner. This is not only a moral distortion, but besides a real threat to historical truth, to our identity and to the upbringing of future generations.
Unfortunately, it is besides increasingly a weapon of the evil policy of hostile Poland forces. Therefore, in a planet that is increasingly boldly operating half-truth and silence, our march becomes a clear protest against false narrative. We go to show that memory can be a form of resistance—but a worthy and steadfast evidence of faithfulness to truth.
For many years now, the Rota of the independency March, led by Robert Bąkiewicz, have taken the effort to reconstruct the right place for Polish victims of planet War II in collective consciousness – not only ours but besides global ones. We fight not only with lying propaganda, which slanders Poland's good name, but besides with its consequences – which hit our national interests, sovereignty and sense of dignity.
One of the most crucial successes of our activity is the fact that present we can enter the site of the erstwhile German Auschwitz camp with a white-red flag in our hands. It was not so long ago strictly forbidden – it is hard to believe, but for years Poles were banned from commemorating their own national victims under their own banner. This has changed – and it has changed due to the fact that we have not been silent.
As a nation who first resisted German barbarism and who suffered the top losses during planet War II – both in humans and in the achievements of civilization – we have a work to our ancestors and descendants. The work to talk the truth, to proceed with it, even erstwhile it becomes uncomfortable for others.
The memory of Polish victims of Auschwitz is not only a motion of respect for the tormented. It is besides an act of concern for the future – so that our children do not gotta live in a planet where their grandparents are accused of another people's crimes. If not us, who will guarantee that past is not rewritten with individual else's pen?
Unfortunately, despite the passing of more than 8 decades, Germany inactive did not bear real work for the crimes committed in the Polish nation. Until now, Poland has not been paid reparations, looted works of art have not been returned, nor have families murdered been compensated.
Imagine – millions of lives, destroyed cities, burned libraries, robbed museums ... and in consequence we hear about the "gestions of memory" and the "common future" – as if we could sweep all our suffering under the carpet.
It's not just a deficiency of justice. That's mockery. That's why our march is needed – to remind you that past has not been closed, and the injury bill remains open.
In addition, for many years the process of appropriating the memory of Auschwitz has been going on – this place is presented exclusively as a symbol of the extermination of Jews, aside from the fact that Poles were the first prisoners and victims of German terror.
In the face of specified curses, and especially after the appointment of Barbara Engelking – a individual known for controversial, anti-Polish statements – we cannot stay indifferent. It is our work to remind the planet of the truth: Poles were the first. And we will not let that be forgotten!
Therefore, erstwhile again, with all seriousness, let us come to Auschwitz on 14 June. Let us stand together with the white and red flags, where our countrymen died for being Poles.
Let our presence be an expression of homage, but besides of strength—the strength of a nation that does not let its past to be fouled or deny the suffering of its ancestors. I firmly believe that this joint march will be a evidence of conscience towards future generations.
I invitation you with all my heart – do not let us miss you in this very crucial minute of truth.
Paweł Kryszczak
National Coordinator
Rota Association
Independence March
