27 January 2014 The United Nations today paid tribute http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?1638 to the 6 million Jews and countless others massacred in http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?1633 the Nazi Holocaust with a solemn ceremony in the http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?493 General Assembly Hall, a rebuke to Holocaust deniers, http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?1268 and a warning from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of the http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?646 perils of anti-Semitism and hatred of any kind.
The http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?1520 United Nations was founded to prevent any such horror http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?991 from happening again. Yet tragedies from Cambodia to http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?1109 Rwanda to Srebrenica show that the poison of genocide http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?1363 still flows, he said in a message marking the http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?1246 International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?1646 Victims of the Holocaust, held every year on 27 http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?825 January, the date on which Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?1295 the worst German Nazi concentration and extermination http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?592 camps, was liberated in 1945.
Mr. Ban recalled his http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?1144 own visit to the camp in November as he walked through http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?570 the infamous gate bearing the metal slogan arbeit macht http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?387 frei (work makes [you] free) and stood near the http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?698 crematoria that burned the corpses of so many victims. http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?1052 I will never forget my visit, he said.
I saw the http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?1429 horrific remnants of the machinery of genocide, as well http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?902 as moving images of European Jewish life in the 1930s - http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?1294 weddings, family meals, rituals, other scenes of simple http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?633 daily life - all extinguished through systematic murder http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?1568 unique in human history.
I saw the barracks where http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?1059 Jews, Roma, Sinti, homosexuals, dissidents, prisoners http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?571 of war and persons with disabilities spent their final http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?911 days in the most brutal conditions, he added, calling http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?1635 for unflagging vigilance against bigotry, extremist http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?925 ideologies, communal tensions and discrimination http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?566 against minorities.
UN High Commissioner for Human http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?792 Rights Navi Pillay, recalling her own visit to http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?568 Auschwitz-Birkenau, has a simple message for all those http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?1140 who deny that the Holocaust happened, or who engage in http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?472 anti-Semitism and other forms of religious, racial or http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?1241 ethnic intolerance or discrimination.
Visit this http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?1206 historic and terrible place, she said in a message http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?812 marking the Day. It is a truly humbling and harrowing http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?1196 experience to feel the chill of evil and immense http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?1211 tragedy that permeates its walls and grounds. It is http://www.nefga.org/forum/entry.php?1233 important to feel - not just to know in an abstract way - where such behaviour can lead.
Filmmaker Steven Spielberg speaks with UN Television. Credit: UNTV
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