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"Mr President, today is the anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War. I believe it is an appropriate occasion on which to call on you and on all MEPs to support the call for 25 May to be declared an international day devoted to honouring those who fought heroically against totalitarianism.
The choice of the date of 25 May is not accidental. On 25 May 1948 the Communists murdered Captain Witold Pilecki. The Captain was the only person to go to a concentration camp voluntarily, in order to organise resistance inside the latter and gather information on the mass murders taking place. After spending more than two years in Auschwitz, he escaped and subsequently fought in the Warsaw Uprising. He remained in Poland after the fall of the Nazis in order to oppose the next totalitarian regime, namely the Soviet one. This decision eventually cost him his life.
People like Witold Pilecki deserve to be remembered. As the democratically elected representatives of Europe, we have it in our power to establish a day on which to honour their memory. Let us hope that, once the date of 25 May is set aside for that purpose, we will only need to remember past struggles against genocide and that the tragedy of totalitarianism will never be re-enacted."@en1
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