Bengaluru: emphasized the need to remember historical errors, Jonathan Zadka, Israeli Consul General to South India, said on Thursday that it was a collective responsibility to ensure that cruelty like a holocaust was not repeated.
He spoke at the virtual ceremony held by Israeli Consulate General to South India to commemorate the International Holocaust Memorial Day.
“This atrocity should not be forgotten.
Candle lighting along with members of the diplomatic community in South India and the leaders of the religious community in Bengaluru to remember the victims of Holocaust sent a strong message, emphasizing everyone’s responsibility to ensure that cruelty never happened again,” he said.
The ceremony saw the participation of the head of a diplomatic and ulama mission from various religious communities, which lit candles to remember victims of the Holocaust.
Every year, the United Nations builds themes where the warning is focused.
The theme for 2022 is “memory, dignity and justice”, including maintaining historical records, considering the victims, and challenging historical distortions that are often expressed in contemporary antisemitism.
Judith Ravin Consul General at the US Consulate General in Chennai added that the global community must also speak against the denial of the Holocaust, distortion, antisemitism, and all forms of discrimination.
Friedrich Birgelen, Deputy Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany said that words were unfair for the cruelty of the Holocaust carried out.
Archbishop Bangalore, Peter Machado, who delivered the address on behalf of religious leaders, said that to forget the Holocaust was to kill the victims twice.
He urged the global community to take lessons from the past and prepare future generations with a positive idea of peace and harmony.
“We must provide future generations of our future about the future, an understanding of the importance of life, freedom, peace, harmony, tolerance and coexistence,” he said.
The UN General Assembly, in November 2005, was officially declared January 27 as an international commemoration day to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust to remember six million Jews, along with five million other dead in the genesis.
The date marked the commemoration of the release of the Nazi concentration and the Auschwitz-Birkenau crushing camp by the Soviet forces in 1945.
“Holocaust is a painful chapter in the history of mankind.
Centuries of antisemitism laid the foundation for such horrific actions that shake the foundation of modern civilization, resulting in a crisis and Widespread disasters for humanity.
His unprecedented character and horrors will always hold universal meanings, “said broadcast.
‘Collective responsibility to ensure that cruelty like Holocaust does not repeat’
