On 11 May 2025 ceremonies organized in connection with the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Mauthausen-Gusen German concentration camp by the U.S. Army were held at the Mauthausen Memorial. Tens of thousands of people from various countries, including several hundred from Poland, paid tribute to the victims of the camp located in Austria. The IPN was represented by the Deputy President Mateusz Szpytma, Ph.D.
During the main ceremonies, delegations laid wreaths in front of monuments commemorating victims. In tribute to the Poles murdered by the Germans, dozens of wreaths were laid during the ceremony in front of the Polish Memorial and a Holy Mass was celebrated.
The celebration was attended, among others, by His Majesty King Philip VI of Spain and Her Majesty Queen Letizia, the Federal President of the Republic of Austria Alexander Van der Bellen, Kosovo President Vojsa Osmani, the Deputy Marshal of the Senate of Poland Maciej Żywno and concentration camp survivors: Hanna Berger-Moran, Eva Clarke and Mark Olsky.
On 10 May 2025, the IPN delegation led by the Institute’s Deputy President Mateusz Szpytma paid tribute to those murdered at the Ebensee KZ and laid flowers in front of the memorial in Lungitz, dedicated to the victims of the Mauthausen concentration camp and its numerous subcamps.
The IPN delegation also commemorated the slave laborers of Bergkristall plant. At the Gusen Memorial the Institute’s representatives took part in ceremonies held at the roll-call square and laid flowers in front of the crematorium furnace and plaques with the names of the murdered Poles.
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