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January 28, 2020
Top United Nations, UN officials, includingSecretary-General, Antonio Guterres have called for strong global actionagainst resurgence in anti-Semitism, xenophobia and other forms of hatred.
They made the call at a special event on the occasion of the2020 International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of theliberation of Auschwitz.
The holocaust, otherwise known as the Shoah, was thegenocide carried out by the Nazi regime in Germany against the European Jewsduring 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 vastAuschwitz concentration camp, where about 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, andother races were murdered, and the liberation of which ended the war.
In his remarks, Guterres said “the world must re-committo preventing any repetition of those crimes”, noting that globalsolidarity 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.