Press release from Prime Minister's Office, Ministry of Culture
Prime Minister and Minister for Culture to attend Auschwitz memorial ceremony
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Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Minister for Culture Parisa Liljestrand will attend a ceremony on Monday 27 January to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp.
The Swedish delegation, led by HRH Crown Princess Victoria, will also include the Speaker of the Riksdag Andreas Norlén as well as survivors of the Holocaust.
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the Nazis’ largest concentration and extermination camp during the Second World War. Some 1.3 million people were deported to the camp, around 1.1 million of whom were murdered.
Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated on 27 January 1945, a date now observed as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Tom Samuelsson
Press Secretary to Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson
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Mobile +46 76 131 82 01
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Press Secretary to Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson
Phone (switchboard) +46 8 405 10 00
Mobile +46 76 131 82 01
email to Tom Samuelsson
Harald Eiken
Press Secretary to Minister for Culture Parisa Liljestrand
Phone (switchboard) +46 8 405 10 00
Mobile 076-781 42 09
email to Harald Eiken
Press Secretary to Minister for Culture Parisa Liljestrand
Phone (switchboard) +46 8 405 10 00
Mobile 076-781 42 09
email to Harald Eiken
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