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International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust

January 28, 2013
On Sunday, January 27, 2013, the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust was observed around the world, in accordance with United Nations General Assembly Resolution 60/7 of November 1, 2005. At the same time, the resolution urged the Secretary-General to initiate the creation of an educational program to teach future generations about the events of the Shoah (the Jewish Holocaust). In our country, on Monday, January 28, the Permanent Commission of the Legislative Branch held, as it does every year, the “Session of Adherence to the Annual International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust of the Jewish People.” A national radio and television broadcast was also held that day for the same purpose.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said the following regarding this resolution:
“Denying historical facts, especially regarding an issue as important as the Holocaust, is simply unacceptable. Equally unacceptable is the call to eliminate any state or people. I would like all members of the international community to respect this fundamental principle both in theory and in practice.”

In the words of writer and philologist Pilar Rahola:
“Nothing that happened in Auschwitz is unrelated to centuries of religious and political persecution that made Europe the home, but also the graveyard, of the Jewish people. Two-thirds of the European Jewish population vanished into thin air. That is why it is important to commemorate a day like today, because there will never be enough education against hatred. And the Holocaust is the paradigm of all hatred.” (La Vanguardia, 1/27/13).