French Prime Minister Jean Castex heads a special delegation to the Auschwitz Holocaust memorial in Poland on Thursday to mark the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp. The visit comes a week after the UN adopted a non-binding resolution to fight against Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism, especially on social media.
Castex will travel to the site with Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin and Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot, as well as France's chief Rabbi Haim Korsia, the president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) Francis Kalifat, high school students and some survivors of the Shoah.
