At the former concentration camp in Sachsenhausen near Berlin, young people from Poland commemorated the 86th anniversary of the transport of Kraków professors carried out as part of the so-called Sonderaktion Krakau. Nearly 100 students from secondary schools in Szczecin took part in the ceremony.
The event began with a march from the Sachsenhausen train station to the gates of the former German Nazi concentration camp KL Sachsenhausen. For several of the Kraków professors, this place became the site of their martyrdom, and for the others it turned into hell on earth. In November 1939, intellectuals arrested by the Germans in the so-called Sonderaktion Krakau on 6 November 1939 were brought to KL Sachsenhausen.
On the 86th anniversary of this event, about 100 high school students from Szczecin honored their memory. Among them were students from, among others, the Maximilian Maria Kolbe Catholic Secondary School and the Feliks Nowowiejski State School of Music Complex.
After marching with a hundred Polish flags to the memorial site at the gate bearing the historical inscription “Arbeit Macht Frei”, the participants took part in a service, followed by a concert and a remembrance roll call. The program also included a prayer at the death pit and a tour of the concentration camp.