After all, ‘the’ truth can consist of many different truths, and we must always be alert to the danger of malicious actors trying to control the narrative. Professor Bilsky’s lecture examined the importance of eye-witness accounts, and how they are interpreted by law. That is a big challenge in a time when everyone has their own mass media channels and when fake news is more rampant than ever. At the same time, we have to decide which stories, which testimonies and which images we store in our collective memory. Here, in the country of Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum, we understand the value of those stories. They underline the importance of such accounts, of victims’ testimonies, and of documenting them for posterity. The stories shared here cut right to the bone. This event today has made a deep impression on me. Thank you for inviting me to be here at this event commemorating the horrors of the Shoah. Your Excellency, Professor Bilsky, Ms Maarsen-Laufer, ladies and gentlemen, This commemoration at the Mirror Memorial ‘Auschwitz Never Again’ in the Wertheim Park in Amsterdam is held annually on the last Sunday in January.Beeld: Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid Minister Yeşilgöz-Zegerius op 30 januari 2023 bij International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Den Haag
Various activities are also held in the Netherlands around 27 January, of which the National Holocaust Remembrance Day is the best known. Activities in the context of Holocaust Remembrance DayĮvery year on and around Holocaust Remembrance Day, activities are organised worldwide to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and other genocides and to teach about discrimination, exclusion, persecution, and mass murder. Read more about the commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz on the website of the Dutch Auschwitz Committee. Every year, the Dutch Auschwitz Committee, in cooperation with the NIOD and the Social Insurance Bank (SVB), organises the 'Auschwitz Never Again’ Lecture. ‘Auschwitz Never Again’ LectureĪuschwitz has become a universal symbol for the mass genocide of innocent civilians. Most of them were murdered in the gas chambers immediately upon arrival. The Nazis murdered more than a million Jews, Roma and Sinti in this camp during World War II.ĭuring the war, close to 60,000 Dutch Jews and 245 Roma and Sinti were deported from the Netherlands to Auschwitz. The camp complex at Auschwitz was the largest of its kind. On 27 January 1945, the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp was liberated by the Allies. In the resolution, the General Assembly condemned ‘without reservation all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment, or violence against individuals or communities based on ethnicity or religious belief wherever they may occur’. It also urged Member States to develop educational programmes for young people to prevent the Holocaust from being forgotten and to prevent genocide occurring in the future. In this resolution, it declared 27 January, the liberation date of Auschwitz, to be an international day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust. On 1 November 2005, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 60/7.
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