Knesset's special meeting will take place in Poland

In advance of 70th anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz (which will take place next year) and on the 69th anniversary of it, January 27th, Holocaust Remembrance Day, over 60 Knesset Members will hold a special session in Auschwitz (over half of the Knesset members). Later they will meet with Polish MPs and public figures from both countries as well as from the USA and Canada (possibly other countries too).
It will be the largest Knesset delegation to Poland so far.

The two planes carrying the Knesset delegation will land at a military base in Krakow. From there the delegation members will be taken by bus to Auschwitz, where they will tour the prisoner blocks and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, which is located in Block 27. The tour will be conducted by Education Minister Shai Piron and MK Shuli Moalem-Refaeli, both of whom gave guided group tours of Auschwitz in the past.

Following the tour the delegation will march to the Birkenau concentration camp. The march will be headed by Speaker Edelstein. In Birkenau, a memorial ceremony will be held on behalf of the Polish government, during which Edelstein, Holocaust survivors and representatives of the Polish and Russian governments will speak. More than 1,000 people are expected to take part in this ceremony.

Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein notes: “The Holocaust did not start with Auschwitz-Birkenau, but with boycotts, words and throwing stones at Jewish shop windows.” He is also particularly concerned about some of the “openly anti-Semitic” parties and politicians around the world today, especially in Europe warning that anti-Semitism “is not just a Jewish or Israeli problem alone” and that while “it starts with the Jews, it doesn’t end with the Jews.” Auschwitz, originally built as a camp for Polish prisoners of war, subsequently turned into concentration camp (it was so till the end of the war) and subsequently having its part turned into death camp for Jewish people is astounding symbol of his warning after which we may (and should as often as possible) add only the words "never again". They used to be so powerful but with history fading in European children's minds and antisemitism on the rise the words lost some of their drive at the time when they should be heard more loudly than ever! And as the awful thinks happen when good people do nothing we are all under obligation to remind what those words "Never Again!!!" stand for.