In an announcement for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Greek foreign ministry on Monday emphasised the need to “fight against the attempt to wilfully trivialise or even deny the blackest page in modern European history,” and to honour the memory of millions of Jews, including Greeks, that “fell victim to the most heinous crime in modern history,” ANA reports.
The statement notes that “since 2005, Greece has been a full member of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and, under the Stockholm Declaration, undertook the responsibility to preserve the collective memory our fellow human beings who died in the Holocaust. Greece’s upcoming presidency of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, in 2021, is practical recognition of its role in combating anti-Semitism and defending historical truth.”
Greece will continue to fight racism, intolerance, discrimination, intimidation and xenophobia. It will continue to honour and protect the memory of those who were lost, and it is committed to working ceaselessly to ensure that those who lost their lives are never forgotten and that humanity never again experiences such horrors, the Foreign Ministry statement said on Monday.”
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