“We must not forget that the Holocaust could have been prevented,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
The European headquarters of the The United Nations in Geneva today commemorated the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. with an act of homage in which the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, called for action to curb discrimination and growing hate speech.
“We must not forget that the Holocaust could have been prevented, and it is important to act to stop any sign of discrimination, because keeping silent makes us accomplices”, Guterres stressed in a video message on the occasion of the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.
In a world with “Obvious signs of increasing discrimination, intolerance and xenophobia” It is “common responsibility to act decisively” so that history does not repeat itself, added the Director General of the United Nations in Geneva, Tatiana Valovaya, at the same commemorative act.
In the tribute he intervened a Holocaust survivor, Emma Adjadj, 92, who spent World War II fleeing the Nazis and he lost his mother and three of his brothers in that conflict, murdered in Auschwitz in 1943.
“We were a normal family until the world fell apart. I spent my childhood fleeing from the Nazis throughout France, in Nice I had to hide for a while on a roof to avoid being captured by the officers”, Adjadj recounted.
“It was very hard for me, I was waiting a long time for my mother and my brothers to come back, my aunt went to the station every day in case she found them there, but they never came back,” recalled the survivor, who was accompanied in the act by some of his relatives.
Adjadj ended his speech with a message for the youngest: “It is important to know what happened, they are not stories, it was the harsh reality of a genocide and, as part of our history, it must be told so that such atrocities are not repeated.”
International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the date the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau, on January 27, 1945. (I)
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