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The Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni, paid tribute to the memory of 53,000 Greek Jews, victims of the Nazi atrocity at the Auschwitz camp in Poland, during her visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. In the place of martyrdom, the collective memory is kept alive, so that these atrocities are never repeated. Lina Mendoni laid a wreath at the Black Wall, at the execution site of Auschwitz I camp, and the Memorial to the Greek Jews at Birkenau camp.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who attended memorial events marking the 75th anniversary since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, paid a visit to the former concentration camp in Poland on Monday.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is in Poland this week on an official visit, where he is expected to participate in the annual "March of the Living" at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp, along with some 10,000 other participants.