On 9 January 2023 in Warsaw representatives of the Gariwo Foundation, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation and a member of the Warsaw Garden of the Righteous Committee, Józef Wancer, established the International Garden of the Righteous Foundation.
In this message - on the occasion of the conference for the Day of the Righteous at the Senate in Rome - Wancer talks about the active role of Memory in our society and the importance of preventing new atrocities through the message of the Righteous.
Józef Wancer was born in a Soviet gulag, fled Nazism and lived in the United States before returning to Poland in the 1990s.