President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi on the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau honored memory of the victims of this tragedy.
“It was a deliberate attempt by the Nazis to wipe out an entire nation – to kill all its people, to destroy everything that reminded us of Jews. Six million victims. The crime of the Holocaust must never be repeated, but gradually, unfortunately, the memory of the Holocaust is fading. And the evil that tries to destroy the lives of entire nations, still remains in the world.” – noted Zelensky.
The President also emphasized the importance of preserving memory.
“We must all fight for life and not forget that indifference is the fertilizer for evil. We must overcome the hatred that breeds abuse and murder. We must not allow memorylessness. And it is everyone’s mission to do everything so that evil does not win.” – emphasized the head of state.
According to the Institute of National Remembrance, during the Second World War, 6 million Jews became victims of the Nazi policy aimed at the destruction of peoples and groups that the Nazis considered “inferior”. Of them, 1.5 million were residents of the territory of modern Ukraine.
Most of the Jews died in the death camps located on the territory of occupied Poland. At the same time, persecution, evictions to ghettos, and deportation of Jews from their homes took place in front of their non-Jewish neighbors in towns and villages across Europe.
