Moldovan president commemorates Holocaust victims

Chisinau, 27 January /MOLDPRES/ - ‘’Today we bewail the lives lost and the huge misfortune through which people who lived on this earth went. We are obliged to do our utmost, so that such tragedies never repeat anywhere in the world,’’ President Maia Sandu said at a Meeting-requiem dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marked on 27 January.     

According to the presidential press service, the head of state said that the physical extermination of a huge number of people, without any blame and right to defence, had showed the lowest limit of the evil to which a society can get and that the mankind must never get to that level of human degradation, which allowed this tragedy.     

„Today, we commemorate people whom we everybody lost. We lost not only parents, children, grandparents, relatives. The entire mankind lost scientists and culture people, inventors, entrepreneurs. Our everybody’s duty is to convey to the next generations the tragic remembrance of those times and do our best for such tragedies not to be repeated,’’ Maia Sandu stressed.    

At the same time, the Moldovan president urged the citizens to act based on the things which unite us and not allow being divided by differences. For this, the head of state said, it is necessary to condemn the hatred discourse, the discrimination and any form of violence, to edify a democratic society, where there is no room for dictatorship and terror. We can do this together, each of us, being more tolerant, better, more respectful with each other.  

„Today, I am by the side of the Jewish and Romany community, for which this day is of special importance. Before these our communities and before all citizens of Moldova, I commit to contribute to combating the hatred discourse and keep alive the memory of those dark times,’’ President Maia Sandu said on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.    

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