Merkel To Visit Former Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp On Friday
Sumaira FH Published December 06, 2019 | 10:10 AM
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th December, 2019) German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit on Friday the Holocaust memorial in the former Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland for the first time in 14 years in office.
Merkel will become the third German chancellor who will visit Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The visit will take place ahead of the 75th anniversary of the camp's liberation by the Red Army on January 27, 1945.
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the biggest Nazi death camp where more than 1.1 million were exterminated during World War II. The memorial is now listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
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