Poland will mark the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp on Wednesday with events to include a mass, a conference of education ministers and speeches by Israeli and European leaders. The ceremonies, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, will launch with a meeting of education ministers in Auschwitz and an international Holocaust forum in the nearby city of Krakow. The Third International Holocaust Forum is slated to be addressed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek, with video messages expected from US President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Attendees will include Holocaust survivors, members of the European Parliament, and students. The event that marks the date when the Soviet Red Army liberated the camp where the Nazis killed some 1.1 million people, mostly Jews. "It is a vital part of the human experience to learn from past mistakes," Moshe Kantor of the European Jewish Congress, one of the event's organizers, said in a statement.
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