Switzerland: UN marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Geneva

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The United Nations marked the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust in Geneva on Thursday, where a commemoration ceremony for the victims was held.

“The United Nations must always be on the frontline of the fight against antisemitism and all other forms of religious bigotry and racism,” said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in a video message shared during the ceremony.

“Remembering the past is crucial to safeguarding the future. Silence in the face of hatred is complicity,” he added.

Candles were lit at the beginning of the ceremony before Holocaust survivor Emma Adjadj shared her memories with the assembly. “Unluckily from us nobody returned, neither my grandmother nor my uncles nor mama nor children, nobody came back, everyone was exterminated,” she said. Adjajd added that young people should be told what happened, the history and the facts of the Holocaust.

Lotte Knudsen, EU’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, underlined that one in 20 Europeans have never heard of the Holocaust. “The best antidote against antisemitism is knowledge. A central pillar of the European Union strategy is education and research and Holocaust remembrance,” Knudsen said.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is held on January 27 every year, the day that the largest Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by the Soviet Red Army during World War II.

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SOT, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres (Video Message): “The United Nations must always be on the frontline of fight against antisemitism and all other forms of religious bigotry and racism.”

SOT, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres (Video Message): “Remembering the past is crucial to safeguarding the future. Silence in the face of hatred is complicity.”

SOT, Meirav Eilon Shahar, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations and International Organisations in Geneva: “The Holocaust took the lives of two thirds of European Jews, two thirds, six million people, six million lives. Today we mourn every community, every family and every name.”

SOT, Lotte Knudsen, EU’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva: “Nevertheless it’s the case that one in 20 Europeans have never heard about the Holocaust and generations after these atrocities, antisemitism is worryingly on the rise in Europe.”

SOT, Lotte Knudsen, EU’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva: “As the best antidote against antisemitism is knowledge. A central pillar of the European Union strategy is education and research and Holocaust remembrance.”

SOT, Holocaust survivor Emma Adjadj (French): “Unluckily from us nobody returned, neither my grandmother nor my uncles nor mama nor children, nobody came back, everyone was exterminated.”

SOT, Holocaust survivor Emma Adjadj (French): “First of all you have to tell them (young people) what happened; the war of 14 (1914), the war of 39 (1939). It is important. We teach them afterwards. We should tell them all what happened. There is all to prove that this a reality, this is not a story. If we don’t teach them at school, if the parents don’t talk about it, even us, I conserved my son for a long time.”

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