by taking part in the 1995 ceremony to commemorate the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp, the president of the icrc, cornelio sommaruga, sought to show that the organization was fully aware of the gravity of the holocaust and the need to keep the memory of it alive, so as to prevent any repetition of it. he paid tribute to all those who had suffered or lost their lives during the war and publicly regretted the past mistakes and shortcomings of the red cross with regard to the victims of the concentration camps.