In her social network post on Thursday, President Zuzana Caputova recalled the causes and events leading to the Holocaust as well as its consequences. She pointed to the changes in society that preceded the deportations, calling on people to weigh their words better to avoid history repeating itself. Depriving millions of people of their dignity, enslaving and murdering them is a crime we must never allow again; the responsibility lies with each of us, stated Prime Minister Eduard Heger on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day which falls on January 27. He stressed that peace and prosperity are not a matter of course and should be valued. According to Parliamentary Chair Boris Kollar innocent people, women and children suffer and other atrocities happen if a war is launched and we must not allow this. Bratislava Castle, the seat of Slovak Parliament was lit up on Thursday with the inscription #WeRemember. In this way, Parliament joined the global campaign on the occasion of 2022 International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27.
Declared for the first time in 2005 by the UN General Assembly to remember the six million Jewish victims of the WW2 Holocaust, the date commemorates January 27, 1945, when the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Source: TASR
