Sinn Féin leaders Mr Martin McGuinness and Mr Gerry Kelly are to remember victims of the Holocaust during a visit to Auschwitz, it was confirmed today.
The Mid Ulster MP confirmed that he and Mr Kelly were travelling to Poland tomorrow following an invitation from Northern Ireland's
"Last year some local members of the Jewish community who had been involved in the organisation of the Holocaust Memorial Day invited a number of local politicians to participate in a trip to the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp," Mr McGuinness.
"Both Gerry Kelly and myself have accepted the invitation and will travel to Auschwitz tomorrow morning for a day-long series of events in Auschwitz, Birkenau and Krakow."
Auschwitz was originally a camp for Polish prisoners during the Second World War but was expanded in 1941 with the addition of Birkenau as the Nazis carried out their programme of genocide. The concentration camp held Jews, Polish PoWs, Russians, Slavs and other prisoners.
The total death toll in the Auschwitz complex was estimated at 1.1 million, with one million of the victims Jewish.
Jewish community to politicians from the province.