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Press Information published by the International Auschwitz Committee

28.04.2022

Yom hashoah: Worldwide remembrance of the martyrs and heroes of the Holocaust

 
 
28 April 2022, Jerusalem, Israel: President Isaac Herzog and his wife, First Lady Michal Herzog, light candles on Yom Hashoah in the Knesset in memory of the martyrs and heroes of the Holocaust. Image:

28 April 2022, Jerusalem, Israel: President Isaac Herzog and his wife, First Lady Michal Herzog, light candles on Yom Hashoah in the Knesset in memory of the martyrs and heroes of the Holocaust. Image:

 

 

 

Speaking in Berlin on the occasion of today’s Holocaust Remembrance Day Yom Hashoah, Christoph Heubner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee said:

“Beneath the shadow, and deeply angered by a newly unleashed war and the criminal annihilation of human life, survivors of the Holocaust and their families around the world are remembering today, on Yom Hashoah, all those who were murdered in the German concentration and extermination camps. Today, their thoughts and prayers are also going out to the Holocaust survivors in Ukraine, in Belarus and in Russia who have been plunged into the depths of this new war, are suffering in the bombardments and being re-traumatised in this criminal invasion. Especially on this remembrance day which touches so deeply their own suffering and reaches into the depths of the darkest days of humanity, the survivors of the Holocaust call on the Russian President Putin to put an immediate stop to this war of aggression against Ukraine and the human suffering it is causing.

In Warsaw Marian Turski, the Jewish-Polish Auschwitz survivor and President of the International Auschwitz Committee said: “We are living in days of darkness. But it pleases me to see that there are also opposition movements, and that in the elections in France and Slovenia far-right candidates have been rejected by the majority of the voters. In view of the war in Ukraine and the constant growth of racial aggression against minorities as well as the many-layered increase in anti-Semitism, we need Europe even more as a project of hope and security, to join together and counter these tendencies in a concerted effort. The peoples of the world will do well to preserve our memories and warnings as realistic descriptions of what is humanly possible.”

 
 
 

For further Information

Christoph Heubner

Executive Vice President
International Auschwitz Committee
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