President de Gaulle will pay a visit to the site of the Auschwitz death camp during his official visit to Poland it was reported here today. He is scheduled to arrive in Warsaw on June 1 and will remain in Poland for about a week.
It was reported here that the President had asked the Polish Ambassador in Paris to arrange a special visit for him to the death camp site. General de Gaulle said he wanted to pay his respects to the victims of Nazism murdered in Auschwitz.
A memorial to the 4,000,000 victims at Auschwitz was dedicated last month in an official ceremony and on the next day, thousands of Jews made a pilgrimage to the site to recite the Kaddish.
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