The two leaders also went to the so-called Black wall, which were executed thousands of prisoners. There they bowed their heads before the two garlands with flowers of their people.

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Merkel intends to give a speech at the death camp Birkenau, where they built the gas chambers and crematoria. She was invited to the death camp to mark the 10th anniversary of the Foundation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

During his tenure as Chancellor Merkel did not shy away from the recognition of Germany’s responsibility for the atrocities committed by Adolf Filterom and the Nazis during the Second world war.

Merkel honored the memory of the other Nazi concentration camps, and five times she was in the Israeli Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem.

Her visit to Auschwitz will provide it following in the footsteps of two former chancellors, seeing the site before her term ends.

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Merkel brought a donation of 60 million euros (66.6 million USD), which will go to a Fund to preserve the physical remnants of an object – barracks, guard towers and personal items such as shoes and suitcases of the dead.

This is a donation to the Auschwitz Foundation comes in addition to the 60 million euros that Germany sacrificed when the Foundation was established ten years ago, in accordance with the Auschwitz-Birkenau state Museum. It also makes Germany the most generous of the 38 countries that have contributed to the Fund.

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“Auschwitz is a Museum, but also the largest cemetery in the world… (Memory) is the key to building the present and the future,” said Museum Director Piotr Cywinski, the Reuters news Agency on the eve of Merkel’s visit at the invitation of the Auschwitz Foundation.

The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Poland called the visit “historic”, in recognition of the unique status of Auschwitz in the world’s collective memory.

Merkel’s visit comes at a time when in Europe there has been a surge of anti-Semitism. A new report from the new York anti-defamation League (ADL) found that one in four European holds anti-Semitic beliefs.

“These findings are a powerful Wake-up call that more needs to be done to teach the broad bands of the population in many of these countries to abandon fanaticism, in addition to addressing pressing security needs, where violent incidents are rising,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said.

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The forces of Nazi Germany killed about 1.1 million people in the complex Auschwitz-Birkenau during the occupation of Poland during world war II. Most of the victims were Jews who were transported from all over Europe to be killed in the gas chambers. But there were also killed tens of thousands of other people, including poles, Soviet POWs and Gypsies, or Roma. The camp was liberated by the Soviet army on 27 January 1945.