Poland’s president said Tuesday that he won't attend a commemoration in Israel to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp because he was not asked to speak at the forum along with world leaders who include the presidents of
Russia and Germany.
President Andrzej Duda was not among the foreign dignitaries named as speakers for the Jan. 23 World
Holocaust Forum in media releases sent out Tuesday for the event at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.
Russian President
Vladimir Putin and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, whose countries invaded Poland at the start of World War II, are listed along with French President
Emmanuel Macron and Britain's Prince Charles.