The event was attended by about 200 former prisoners from around the world, as well as many delegations.
“Three generations have passed since that day, from January 27, 1945, when several thousand prisoners, tormented by cruelty, slave labor, hunger and disease, finally waited for the release of soldiers of the Red Army,” RIA Novosti quotes Dudu, who opened the ceremony.
Earlier, the French president Emmanuel Macron spoke about the role of Soviet soldiers in the liberation of the concentration camp. The head of state emphasized that on January 27, 1945, "the brave soldiers of the Red Army entered the barbed wire of the territory of the concentration camp."
He called for "remembering the past, remembering all the victims of the Holocaust in order to build the present."