were raised to a completely different level, previously unknown. "This evil, in its purest form, was directed against a man, directed against other nations. People who were brought here were to be deprived of humanity. Humanity was not to be present here. And in some sense it was not. And I am not talking about those people who were deprived of this humanity: not Jews, not Poles, not Roma, not Russians, only those who committed this horrible crime. They deprived themselves of the humanity," the Prime Minister said.
"This terrible crime that took place then, apart from separating itself from the world with barbed wire and a high wall, at the same time was also separated by ideology. Terrible, dark, horrifying, Hitlerian, Nazi ideology. Therefore, now there is not the slightest consent to any criminal ideologies, such as German Nazism or communism. And there is no room for racism, antisemitism, for any such behavior. That is why we will remember all the mechanisms of death that were used then, because we owe this memory today to the living, but we also owe this memory to the victims of those times," he emphasized.
"In the face of such a tragedy as the Shoah, all politicians and rulers, but also all citizens, should ask - what comes next? What comes next? And the answer to this question is at the same time very difficult and very easy. We all should fight and care for the truth, for justice and we should give hope to the world hope," concluded Prime Minister Morawiecki.
Minister Wojciech Kolarski from the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland said: "In the name of universal human heritage and future, we, the Poles, will always cherish the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and testify about German crimes. From the very beginning we tried to alert the free world and reveal the truth about the Holocaust. The brave activity of Witold Pilecki and the mission of Jan Karski are examples of the commitment of the Polish Underground State. The rescue was carried out by the Council for Aid to the Jews - "Żegota" - operating by the Government Delegation to Poland. Then and today we remember that three million people murdered during the Holocaust - almost half of all its victims - were citizens of the Polish Republic, our fellow citizens."
Prime Minister of Poland Mareusz Morawiecki