Address by PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk on the 70th anniversary of commemorating Holocaust victims
To the organizers and participants of a memorial
evening “Six million hearts”
Dear friends!
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January 27, 2015 is the date of the 70th anniversary of the liberation
of prisoners from the death camp at Auschwitz, where for a short time there
were exterminated about two million people, with the majority of Jews among
them. On the decision of the United Nations Organization this day is marked as
an international day of Holocaust remembrance – a day to remember about a
black page in the history of mankind and in the history of the Jewish people,
more than one-third of whom had been destroyed during the Second World War. While commemorating this day to pay the tribute of the six million
victims of the Holocaust among them, we remember with sorrow hundreds of
thousands those who were killed, tortured and exterminated on the territory
of Ukraine in those terrible years: Jews, Romanians, Ukrainians and other
nationalities. We honor those who survived in the inhuman
conditions and brought to us that awful truth about where leads an ideology,
built on ideas of hatred and fanaticism, the superiority of one nation over
others. With warm gratitude, we bow our heads to the memory of those who by risking
their own life were saving the doomed to death, and those who by their feat freed
thousands of inmates from the Nazi concentration camps. We strongly condemn all crimes against the Jewish people, all cases of
anti-Semitism, genocide, ethnic and religious intolerance. These days, when Ukraine is suffering from military aggression, and the
terrorists commit reprisals, and sometimes murders basing on national or
religious grounds, we again and again declare the commitment of our people to
build our future on the principles of tolerance and mutual respect, respect
for the freedom and uniqueness of a person. Peace
to all of us, happiness and good. Sincerely, Prime Minister
of Ukraine
Arseniy Yatsenyuk |