Ambassador Raphael Morav met with the UN Resident Coordinator, UNDP Ethiopia Resident Representative and UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Ethiopia, Mr. Aeneas Chuma and discussed the preparations to commemorate the upcoming International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.
In 2005 The General Assembly of the UN decided that the United Nations will designate 27 January -– the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp -- as an annual International Day of Commemoration to honor the victims of the Holocaust, to instill the memory of the tragedy in future generations to prevent genocide from occurring again.
The Holocaust refers to the period of 1941, the beginning to “the final solution” to 1945, when the war in Europe officially ended. During this time, 6,000,000 Jews (1.5 million of these being children) were murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices, and more than 5,000 Jewish communities were destroyed.
Every year, on this event, we stand united saying “Never Again”, condemning anti-Semitism, hatred and racism.