Every year, around January 27, UNESCO pays tribute to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and ratifies its commitment to fight against anti-Semitism, racism and all other forms of intolerance that can lead to violent acts against certain human groups. .
This Thursday, January 27, the liberation in 1945 by the Soviet troops of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau is commemorated; The General Assembly of the United Nations officially proclaimed this date as the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.
Eva Leitman-Bohrer, 72, learned about her birth during World War II and how she was saved during the Holocaust, a subject her parents never wanted to talk to her about.
After the death of her father, she finds a series of files inside an old safe, thus giving the discovery of some passports, birth certificates, correspondence, even a birth certificate of her mother revealing that she had survived a concentration camp.
Mrs. Eva, expressed this Thursday in the morning edition of Panama Today, that her parents were silent in favor of their children.
“It was such a horrible massacre that it was necessary to have a day to remember it. A mayor of Budapest said that Auschwitz was the largest Hungarian cemetery,” he narrated.
Within the framework of this commemoration, the #WeRemember campaign is being developed, a global initiative of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and UNESCO aimed at raising awareness about the importance of the culture of memory for the present.
Since 2017, the WJC and UNESCO have invited groups of people from all over the world to participate in the campaign and upload a photo online with this hashtag, in order to express their commitment to the memory of the Holocaust.
