Polish state news agency PAP cited German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung as saying that Merkel has accepted an invitation to attend ceremonies marking the 10th anniversary of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, an organisation which supports and protects the memorial site, on December 6.
The German leader’s office confirmed that a visit is being planned, but gave no further information, PAP reported.
More than 1.1 million people were killed by the Germans at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Nazi-occupied southern Poland during World War II.
The victims were mostly European Jews, but also Poles, Roma, Soviet POWs and prisoners of other nationalities.
The German Auschwitz-Birkenau camp operated from 1940 until its liberation by the Soviet Red Army on January 27, 1945.
(jh/pk)
Source: PAP