Now more than ever, we need global cooperation to counter the continued threat of the pandemic. But the response to this crisis helps us distinguish between the pariah states of this world and countries that seek peaceful coexistence.
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the loss of 6 million Jews and the more than 27,000 non-Jews, known as the Righteous Among the Nations, who risked their lives to save Jews from the Nazis and their collaborators.
On January 23, we stood together with united resolve in the face of history’s greatest horror, the Holocaust, at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp where more than 1 million Jews perished. Never Again. Not for Jews. Not for Muslims. Not for any of God’s children.
Esta semana tuvo lugar el Día Internacional de Conmemoración del Holocausto, fecha en la que se recuerda a los 6 millones de judíos asesinados durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Pero también es una ocasión para reconocer y honrar a los miles de no judíos que arriesgaron sus vidas para ayudar a salvar a las víctimas de la persecución y los crímenes por parte de los nazis y sus colaboradores.
In India, Holocaust Studies is a most neglected subject. The Second World War itself is barely taught in schools, despite India having been deeply involved in many ways besides the contribution of 2.5 million volunteers to fight the war, in the sea, air and land.