When I am walking down the main street, when I see the barracks, when I see the numbers, the way they are standing very straight. You get an impression of how it was before with the people that almost all perished. When you actually first walk in; when Andrzej took me to Block 25; when I met Mirek and saw the exhibition department, so much to see and implement...But there is a place in Birkenau, when I walk towards the end of the road, get to the main monument and turn left towards the ruins of the crematorium. I stand there and look at them, at the ruins, and this is Auschwitz for me…This stems from 18 years ago when we had a ceremony there in 2000 with President Weizman and President Kwaśniewski together.
We performed the main ceremony there and it was very powerful and so strong to have the two Presidents on the ruins of the crematoria that can no longer touch and endanger Jewish people and all humanity. Since then I haven't missed any Marches – I stand there by myself with tears in my eyes. I will always go there…
Rozmawiał Paweł Sawicki