Memorial Day, Schlein: ‘The Shoah was the darkest moment in history, a commitment to eradicate hatred’

Rome, 27 January (LaPresse) – "Remembering does not just mean recalling: it means cultivating a daily commitment to ensure that what happened never happens again. Remembering the Holocaust, the darkest moment in human history, means being aware of what led to the systematic and planned murder of over 6 million Jews, wiping out entire generations, and of other communities that the Nazi-Fascists and their collaborators considered inferior, such as Roma and Sinti, people with disabilities and homosexuals, and political opponents. An extermination perpetrated by denying their very humanity'. This was written on social media by PD secretary Elly Schlein. 'Holocaust Remembrance Day was established to commemorate the Holocaust, the racial laws, and the resistance of those who opposed the horror. For this reason, memory must call on everyone to be constantly and actively vigilant in order to eradicate the roots of hatred from our societies, to work concretely every day to build a society based on respect for others, equality, justice and freedom, and to combat all forms of revisionism and discrimination, starting with anti-Semitic resurgence. We will never tire of keeping the spotlight on this issue. Because if it happened once, no one can be sure it won't happen again, and we have a duty to learn from history and from memory,' adds the Democratic Party leader.