L’“horror” of the Holocaust cannot be “forgotten nor denied” and the whole world must fight “to weaken the wound of anti-Semitism”Pope Francis said on Sunday, on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp.
“Tomorrow is the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust, 80 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The horror of the extermination of millions of Jewish people and other religions in those years can neither be forgotten nor denied.he said at the end of the Sunday Angelus prayer.
He invited the whole world to “collaborate to weaken the scourge of anti-Semitism, as well as any force of discrimination and religious persecution”.
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“Let us build together a more fraternal, fairer world by teaching young people to have a heart open to all, in the logic of fraternity, forgiveness and peace”concluded the Pope.
-Auschwitz-Birkenau has become the symbol of the genocide perpetrated by Nazi Germany on six million European Jews, a million of whom died at the site between 1940 and 1945, along with more than 100,000 non-Jews.
On Monday, an official ceremony in the presence of around fifty survivors and 54 international delegations will mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of this site.
