Croatia will be represented by President Stjepan Mesic and Foreign Minister Miomir Zuzul.
Also present will be French President Jacques Chirac, eight European prime ministers, the presidents of the European Commission and the European Parliament, Jose Manuel Barroso and Josep Borell, and representatives of royal families -- Queen Beatrix of Denmark and King Albert II of Belgium.
between 1940 and 1945 at least 1.1 million Jews and several thousand Poles, Roma and citizens from the former Soviet Union and other countries were killed in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi camp.