The incident during the celebrations of the anniversary of the Museum Stutthof – Gazeta Wyborcza

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KL Stutthof was the longest running Nazi concentration camp. Its construction began already on 2 September 1939. He then came to Sztutowo first transport of prisoners who were sent to work on the clearing of forest land and fencing with barbed wire.

On Friday, at the monument of Struggle and Martyrdom in Stutthof were held anniversary celebrations, which appeared among former prisoners and the Deputy Minister of Culture and National Heritage Jaroslaw Sellin. He spoke to the assembled also director of the Museum Stutthof Piotr Tarnowski. How to inform the journalists, “Journal of the Baltic”, despite the lofty character was not without incidents of a political nature.

“Who is this salvo?”

the ceremony began with holy Mass for the intention of the fallen. This was followed by some specific celebrations or meeting with former prisoners of the camp, as well as with representatives of state and local authorities as well as the direction of the Museum Stutthof. During the ceremony appeared appeal of the fallen, honor salvo. Among others, spoke to the assembled Former prisoner Charles Gdaniec, Jaroslaw Sellin, Peter Tarnowski. It crowned the celebration of the opening of the exhibition “Called Earth”, which presents and summarizes this year’s archaeological excavations conducted at the site of the former camp, outside the museum. At the exhibition you can see the belongings of prisoners, and objects associated with the camp life, including plates with numbers of prisoners.

While the most important part of the ceremony there was an incident. According to the decision of the defense minister Antoni Macierewicz to the text appeal of the dead read out on state ceremonies included a piece dedicated to the victims of the plane crash of April 10, 2010. In Smolensk. During the salvo of honor spoke clearly upset participant of the event.

– Who is this salvo of honor? This place is the memory of the prisoners, not those who died on April 10! – Screaming woman.

“Appeal Smolensk” was a bone of contention among during the celebration of the anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, and the Poznan June 1956.

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