Top United Nations, UN officials, including Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres have called for strong global action against resurgence in anti-Semitism, xenophobia and other forms of hatred.
They made the call at a special event on the occasion of the 2020 International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
The holocaust, otherwise known as the Shoah, was the genocide carried out by the Nazi regime in Germany against the European Jews during World War-II, which saw the killing of no fewer than six million Jews, around two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population by between 1941 and 1945.
The regime’s most notorious killing centre was the vast Auschwitz concentration camp, where about 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, and other races were murdered, and the liberation of which ended the war.
In his remarks, Guterres said “the world must re-commit to preventing any repetition of those crimes”, noting that global solidarity in the face of hatred was needed today more than ever.
Also, UN General Assembly President Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, said Holocaust remained “the most horrific genocide in human history.
