Declaration by Moldovan parliament speaker on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Chisinau, 27 January /MOLDPRES/ - Parliament Speaker Andrian Candu has made a Declaration on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the parliament’s communication and public relations department has reported.   

The declaration reads: 

”In the memory of those six million Jews killed during the Holocaust, each of us has obligations: not to forget our history and not ever allow violence and extermination of people according to ethnic, religious, health or other criteria.  

After many years, Moldova accepted, along with other western states, its dark side of the history. This means a safer present and a better future for all residents of the country.  

Our children learn in schools about atrocities against Jews and Romanies in the period of the Second World War, learn about those 79 Righteous fellow countrymen among peoples, as they did not yield to the propaganda which intoxicates with hatred and had courage to rescue other lives while putting at risk their own lives. Our children learn also from our mistakes, even from the most shameful and painful ones. They must be known without reservations, in order not to be repeated.        

Time is ripe to educate the new generations that the fight against intolerance, Antisemitism and xenophobia, discrimination, racism is an obligation of each of us.     

Let us commemorate the Holocaust victims through education.”