Seventy-seven years after the Holocaust and the end of the Nazi atrocities at Auschwitz-Birkenau, we pay tribute to the victims and unite our voice with the entire civilized world that does not forget the mass genocide against the Jews.
Through ideologies imbued with blind and inhuman fanaticism, the Nazis and their local collaborators then unleashed a merciless persecution against the Jews. This persecution, which came to be known by the word "pogrom" to denote a merciless operation of crushing, sent six million people to concentration camps where they perished.
January 27 has been internationally established as Holocaust Remembrance Day. Therefore, on these days, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth, in cooperation with the Embassy of Israel in Cyprus and the Jerusalem-based Holocaust Teaching and Research Centre-Yad Yashem, organises various activities to commemorate the millions of Jews who unjustly perished in the Nazi camps.
We cultivate knowledge of historical facts and memory to close the way so that such horrific acts against humanity cannot happen again. Memory is part of the consciousness of the civilized man and the informed modern democratic citizen. Since Greek antiquity, Mnemosyne, goddess of memory, has been the mythological mother of the nine Muses, i.e. of letters, arts and culture. The opposite of Mnemosyne, Lethe. Who had, according to mythology, Eris as her mother and her brothers Limo and Dysnomia, but also her aunt Deception and her grandfather Chaos. Oblivion is thus identified with conflict, calamities, chaos. After all, the word a-truth itself is the opposite of oblivion, i.e. truth is that which cannot be forgotten.
An important support to our effort to keep this memory alive is that we are honoured to have with us today Mr. Moshe Aetolion. Mr. Aelyon has survived the horrors of Auschwitz. He is one of those rare cases of people who, through personal testimony, can connect us to this bitter truth. The Nazis may have destroyed all the evidence from the concentration camps. But people like Moshe Eagles reconstruct the memory through personal testimonies. We thank him for agreeing to share his experiences with us. So that younger people may know and older people may remember the atrocities that unfortunately people have come to inflict on other people.
Dear children,
These are things that are beyond the capacity of the human mind, but they have happened. With the help of Mr. Eagles' narrative we keep the memory alive and it calls us to reflection and vigilance. Thus we will stand upright and determined even in the face of attempts at revisionism or even denial, which unfortunately manifest themselves here and there.
Particularly sensitive within the wider area of Hellenism that has suffered from Italian acts of genocide, but also here in our own homeland that for almost half a century has been threatened by a real ethnic cleansing in the occupied territories, we share the traumatic memory and the historical truth of the Holocaust of the Jews, we share the traumatic memory and the historical truth of the Holocaust of the Jews.
Keeping the memory alive, we approach the world with empathy and solidarity, but we also defend the universal values of man.
Thank you Mr. Moshe Eagles for being with us today and helping us in the effort of historical memory and truth.
IP
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