Controversies around the participation of president Karol Nawrocki in the celebration of the 81st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. The leader was not officially welcomed at the event, nor was he allowed to speak. The organizers explain that this year they decided to resign from the official's speeches during the culmination part of the ceremony.
The event took place on 27 January, and its course immediately sparked a wave of speculation. Karol Nawrocki did not talk in the authoritative part of the celebration. The president was not even mentioned by name by organizers.
Wojciech Kolarski, Minister at the Chancellery of the president Karol Nawrocki, did not bite his tongue and said straight about "unprecedented situations".
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- I'm sorry. I guess I should have told you what didn't happen, due to the fact that the celebration itself was worthy. On the another hand, what was unworthy was the fact that the president of the Republic, the head of state, was not noticed by the leader - said the authoritative on Radio Wnet.
- I'm sorry. The president was on his way to the erstwhile camp to pay tribute to the Holocaust victims. And completely incomprehensible, surprising and scandalous is that he was not welcomed," he added. He besides stressed that specified a situation is marked by scandal," he added.
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- I'm sorry. all ceremony the president attended, the organizer always emphasized it due to the fact that it Great Honor. For the first time I met a situation where the president is not mentioned - concluded the co-worker of the President.
President not allowed to talk in Auschwitz. Translation of organisers
Organizers explain that according to the decision of the Museum Council no speeches provided during the authoritative ceremony.
"Welcome guests during the main part of the celebration were not of a protocolatory nature. Individual groups of participants, including representatives of state and local authorities, were welcomed. No 1 was mentioned by name, either the Survivors, present at the celebrations of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage or representing their ambassadors states" - wrote museum spokesperson Bartosz Bartyzel in a message sent to the diary "Fact".
Bartyzel added that "This form has been respected and understood besides during the erstwhile anniversary of liberation".
"President Karol Nawrocki was portrayed in the part of the celebration in which he played the main role: at the time of receiving and transferring the symbolic light lit by the Survivor (...). The presentation by the president at the memorial commemorating the victims of Auschwitz was The item of the celebration" - stressed in the statement.
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However, during the culmination part of the celebrations, the vice-president of Google spoke to the gathered. Officially as a typical of donors collecting donations to the museum. Nawrocki yet gave a short speech aimed at cameras in side of the camp complex.
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