Moshe Haelion, a Greek-Jewish Holocaust survivor, shared with the audience his life’s story, from his childhood in Thessaloniki, the deportation to Auschwitz death camp and the death marches to the Mauthausen-Gusen and Ebensee concentration camps. “A few years ago, I visited Auschwitz with my daughter and my granddaughter, who was pregnant at that time, and I felt that being there, with four generations, at the place where they tried to kill me, marked my ‘victory’,” he said.

The Ambassador of Israel Yael Ravia-Zadok highlighted the importance of the Holocaust education in modern society. “70 years later anti-Semitism has not yet disappeared. We must keep learning and telling that story, assuring that Never Again”, she said. The Ambassador praised the collaboration between the Embassy of Israel and the Cyprus Ministry of Education, which signed last year a cooperation agreement with Yad Vashem Holocaust Education Centre, in an effort to bequeath the lesson of the Holocaust to the young generation.

“Let us honour those who survived the Holocaust and found a way to live on and move on. Let us all Never forget”, stressed the Minister of Health Mr Pamborides, who represented the government.