Is the video about the former prisoner of Auschwitz, saying that he was liberated by the Soviet Army and therefore he will be always grateful to the Russians?

At the end of April 2025, a video spread in the Russian -language segment of social networks, on which an elderly man “tells inconvenient truth” in the presence of the Polish political elite. We checked the authenticity of this video.

On a 47-second video, a person presented in subtitles as Mariana Turski appears in Polish before a large meeting of people. He says: “... with whom they experienced several days of incredible torment and humiliation. They suffered from the Germans and their accomplices of Ukrainians and Lithuanians who collaborated with them. For a sip of water, they had to pay for hours or hundreds of the zlotys. I held out to Auschwitz and survived two marches of death. Freedom was brought to me by the Soviet Army, most of which were Russians. My gratitude to them, those who freed me from German camps, will accompany me until the last day. ” According to the posts, in this way the Polish Jew told the inconvenient truth in the presence of the country's president Andrzej Duda.

Popular publications with this video and similar comments appeared in X, "VKontakte" And Instagramas well as in Telegram channels "Uncle Glory"(187,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Bolat"(175 000),"Russia now"(165 000), Voblya (137,000) and Rus_criminal (105,000).

Poland in Poland Complex of concentration camps Auschwitz - Birkenu He was the largest of all created by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Over the years of his work, about 1.1 million people were killed here, including at least 960,000 Jews. January 27, 1945 Auschwitz was Freed The Soviet troops, more than 7,000 people came out.

Marian Turski - The real prisoner of the Nazi death camp. After he managed to survive in his youth, passing through Lodzian ghetto, concentration camp Auschwitz - Birkenau and two The march of death, Tours dedicated his life to preserve the memory of the Holocaust. He became one of the founders of the Museum of Jewish History in Warsaw and the President of the International Committee of Auschwitz. In the first post -war decades, Turki was An active supporter of the Polish Communist Party, having managed to work as an editor of the youth propaganda newspaper and the censor, however 1968 events in Czechoslovakia Changed his worldview.

January 27, 2025, three weeks before his death, 98-year-old Turski once again He performed on the ceremony dedicated to the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. It would be logical to assume that a fragment of this particular speech became viral in Russian -speaking social networks in 2025, especially since the number 80 is visible over the scene - just so many years have passed since those events.

However Video recording And transcript Turkish performances are online - both the environment and the text are different. In 2025, Turki did not say anything about the Soviet Army.

As the search for keywords shows that the viral video was shot two years ago, on April 19, 2023, at an event dedicated to the 80th anniversary uprisings in the Warsaw ghetto. In 1943, several hundred fighters of Jewish resistance in the Polish capital entered into an unequal battle with units of the German army and police, holding on for almost a month. At a ceremony near The monument to the heroes of the ghetto, the President of Poland really attended Andrzej Dudaas well as the presidents of Israel and Germany.

Turki He performed At the ceremony first. Full text His speech is available on the website of the International Committee of Auschwitz. In particular, the Turki touched the reasons why he believes, people gather together on this day every year. One of these reasons, he called the fact that each generation interprets the facts of the past from its point of view, compares past events with the present. Further, the Turki develops his thought:

“I would like to tell you about what is especially coming to mind when I think about the events of April and May 1943.

I was not in the Warsaw ghetto. I was enclosed in another ghetto - in Lodzi (Lymanstadtgetto). I was sent to Auschwitz and survived two death marches. The latter was from Buchenwald to Terezienstadt. There I was liberated by the Soviet Army, which consisted mainly of the Russians. The gratitude that I feel for those who freed me from German camps will remain with me for life.

But how can I remain indifferent, how can I be silent when today the Russian army invades the territory of one of our neighbors and annexes their lands? Can I be silent when Russian missiles destroy Ukrainian infrastructure, as well as residential buildings, hospitals, cultural monuments? In the end, all this will lead to a colossal increase in mortality and reducing the life expectancy of hundreds of thousands of civilians!

How can I be silent when I see what happened in Bucha, knowing how the Germans destroyed the Polish Mikhnuv, the Belarusian Hatin, the Czech Lidica or the French Oradur? ”

Thus, a fragment of Turki’s speech, a fragment of speech, is spread through the pro -Kremlin channels. In fact, he said that, despite gratitude to Soviet soldiers, he could not afford to be silent about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the follow -up of the disaster. In addition, in the video, two parts of Turski’s speeches are glued - he spoke about Ukrainian and Lithuanian collaborators a little earlier, telling about the fate of the Jewish Khena Kutzer, and not at all contrasting them with the Red Army. Moreover, for the first time, this substitution occurred back in 2023 - even then Russian Media And Telegram channels Actively distributed an mounted fragment of speech of the surviving prisoner of Auschwitz, not reporting its complete content.

Photo on the cover: Museum of Jewish History of Poland

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