Holocaust remembrance day: Victims honoured as politicians warn of rise in antisemitism

People gathered at sites from Russia to Poland to Ukraine on Friday to honour and remember those who died in the Holocaust as the international remembrance day was observed.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke at a ceremony in Kyiv, and emphasized the message "never again to hatred, never again to indifference," while adding there was "eternal memory to all the victims of the Holocaust."

But as the day was recognized, some warned of a rise in antisemitism and called for more to be done to fight it.

The president of Germany's parliament, Baerbel Bas, said that Germany had seen a rise, along with racism and other forms of xenophobia. She stressed that people cannot "turn a blind eye" and antisemitism must be spoken out against.

The director of Poland's Auschwitz Memorial also spoke about the Ukraine war, saying that the places where mass killings took place in the Second World War, like Warsaw and Oradour, can now be called Bucha or Mariupol, referring to sites at which Ukraine and its allies accuse Russian forces of committing atrocities.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, often also referred to as Holocaust Memorial Day, is held yearly on Jan. 27. It was the day the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by Soviet troops.


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