Because despite decades of effort, we have not yet done enough to combat discrimination. To remember and honor children who lost their lives as a result of this tragedy, we created butterflies, penning our favorite quotes about kindness on them. “United in Diversity we speak up against Holocaust deniers, against conspiracy myths, against disinformation, and against violence of every kind that targets and singles out members of our communities. She recalled how the European project was a response to the horrors of the Third Reich, with the hope for a better future in a united Europe that shares values such as peace, fairness, openness and cooperation. In her opening speech, Parliament President Roberta Metsola said that the Holocaust Remembrance Day is about remembering crimes against humanity committed in the past, but also about the importance to speak up in the present and that there is still much to be done to free our society from hatred, discrimination and violence. Against Humanity at the Graduate Center City University of New York. 1) 'To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time,' Elie Wiesel. This year, that translates to April 12th. Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is also known by its Hebrew name Yom HaShoah, falls on the 27th of the month of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar. The date was chosen because, on January 27, 1945, the infamous Nazi German slave labor and death. To help understand that better, there are many Holocaust Remembrance Day quotes that are worth reading and focusing on. 'For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. Here are 18 quotes by survivors, writers and leaders to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. January 27 has been designated by the United Nations as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. is the Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes. 'For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.' Simon Wiesenthal 2. Excerpts from Elie Wiesel's addresses during US Holocaust Memorial Museum Days of Remembrance commemorations in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004.
The guest of honour was centenarian Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer. Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, Canada. On 27 January, 77 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp, the European Parliament commemorated the victims of the Holocaust during special session in Brussels.
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