Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor's Welcome Address We, the European Jewish Congress and other organizers of the Forum, people of the twenty-first century in general, have timeless and irrevocable mandate from millions of Jews and non-Jews burnt together in the Shoah-Holocaust flames and flames of death and concentration camps, to keep the humankind’s historical memory alive forever! Read more
	Jerzy Buzek's Address Sixty-five years have now passed since the hell that was Auschwitz came to an end. The camp was liberated by the soldiers of the Red Army, who shed their blood in the fight against Nazism. For that, we shall be forever grateful to them. Read more
	Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor's Address We need a very serious project with direct answers to the basic questions: what are the main goals, what are the main instruments and methods of such university, in which country, on what legal base, with what sources of financing, etc. The University of Global Security and Tolerance should be a mutual goal of political, parliamentarian, cultural, business and other contributing members of contemporary society. Read more
	Aleksander Kwasniewski's Address I have been here at this Forum five years ago, as President of Poland. And I am back here today as Chairman of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation. My presence here - then and now - is due to the importance I attach to such good-will initiatives, which gather politicians and social leaders to remember the past for the sake of a peaceful future. Read more
	Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau’s Address When there is a threat to a nation, when there is a danger to the existence of society – take decisions! Be brave enough, determined enough to save lives of society, of the mankind. Do not hesitate. Just to remember what happened in the past, with no conclusions at present for the future we waist our time. Moshe Kantor wants us to learn from the Holocaust. Not to be like that philosopher who said: “The only thing we learn from the history is that we didn’t learn from it anything.” Read more
	Avner Shalev's Address The Second World War was a terrible period for all Europe and left scars upon every nation. But the ideologies of Nazism and Stalinist Communism were very and critically different. As were the results of those ideologies: Nazism was not merely totalitarian. Nazism was rooted in an extreme racist philosophy that used the totalitarian regime to implement its unique world vision and to attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish people, culture and human values with it. A day of commemoration, August 23, which lumps together victims of all totalitarian regimes, and in effect equates Nazism with various other dangerous beliefs and systems is simply dangerously untruthful. Read more
	Barack Obama's Address But most of all, I want to thank those of you who found the strength to come back again, so many years later, despite the horror you saw here, the suffering you endured here, and the loved ones you lost here. Those of us who did not live through those dark days will never truly understand what it means to have hate literally etched into your arms. But we understand the message that you carry in your hearts. Read more
	Nicolas Sarkozy's Address Let us build peace, consolidate stability among nations and strengthen Europe because Auschwitz obliges us to do so, today and for the sake of the future. Europe, as an organized body, must take responsibility for this historic duty towards the victims. It is the most worthy and authentic tribute we can pay to those who disappeared here. Read more
	Lech Kaczynski's Address I associate myself with all the organizers and participants of the Third International Holocaust Forum Let My People Live! The Forum which has gathered today in Krakow many distinguished guests marks the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the German annihilation camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. This is an enormously important anniversary. Read more
	Ronald Lauder's Address I feel that every person who can, every schoolchild not only in Poland but around the world should have a chance to see what happened, because the effect it has is very-very strong. President Kantor speaks about a University of Tolerance. The strongest thing for a University is to see the chaos of Auschwitz. Again I must say that today when I go there I will once again feel the horror, but once again feel that the human race has succeeded. Read more