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Auschwitz museum calls Ukraine invasion ‘act of barbarity’
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Solidarity: A young woman places candles at the International Monument to the Victims of Fascism during a visit to the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau on Jan. 27. The museum condemns Russia's invasion of Ukraine as an (AFP/Bartosz Siedlik)
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he Auschwitz museum at the site of the former Nazi death camp on Thursday condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine as an "act of barbarity" that "will be judged by history”.
"As we stand at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial, it is impossible to remain silent while, once again, innocent people are being killed purely because of insane pseudo-imperial megalomania," the museum said in a statement on Twitter.
"This morning, Russia attacked Ukraine. This act of barbarity will be judged by history, and its perpetrators, it is to be hoped, also by the International Court of Justice," it added.
"We express our absolute solidarity with the citizens and residents of the free, independent and sovereign Ukraine and with all Russians who have the courage to oppose this war."
Nazi Germany built the death camp in Oswiecim after occupying Poland during World War II.
The Holocaust site has become a symbol of Nazi Germany's genocide of 6 million European Jews, 1 million of whom died at the camp between 1940 and 1945 along with more than 100,000 non-Jews.
"At this moment, the free and democratic world must show if it has learned its lesson from the passivity of the 1930s," the museum added Thursday.
"Today, it is clear that any symptom of indifference is a sign of complicity."
