Zelenskyy Honors the Memory of Holocaust Victims

President Zelenskyy honored Holocaust victims at Babyn Yar, stressing remembrance as a lesson for future generations. Over 50 diplomats and Ukrainian rabbis attended.

Commemorating the memory of those killed is an important signal to future generations to prevent the tragedy from being repeated, the head of state emphasized.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy honored the memory of Holocaust victims at the National Historical and Memorial Reserve Babyn Yar. This was reported by the press service of the head of state on Tuesday, January 27, according to Korrespondent.net.

“This is a clear lesson from history: when hatred against one people is not stopped, others must not remain indifferent or stand aside. Aggression and contempt for the lives of people and entire nations must never prevail, and protecting life must be the responsibility not only of the brave, but truly of all humanity,” the president said.

The head of state stressed that honoring the memory of the murdered is an important signal to future generations to ensure that the tragedy is not repeated.

“If we do not come together, if we do not remember the victims — above all, the victims of the Jewish people during the Holocaust, during Babyn Yar, where more than 100,000 people were killed and tortured right here, and millions of people around the world — if we do not do this, then fascism has the opportunity to be born, to be reborn again in one state or another, and to wage war against humanity. Against the most important thing — against life,” Zelenskyy said.

More than 50 representatives of foreign diplomatic missions and international organizations, as well as Ukrainian rabbis, also took part in the event. Zelenskyy thanked the diplomats present and their countries for supporting Ukraine.

“Ukraine is taking a difficult path, but a path that leads surely to justice. Thank you. And we will honor the memory of all, absolutely all victims: adults, the elderly, children—everyone who was tortured by the fascist regime,” the head of state added.

On January 27, 1945, the last prisoners of the Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp were liberated, where over a million people died, most of them Jews. In 2005, the UN General Assembly designated January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

It is worth noting that last year in New York, Rose Zirone, who was considered the oldest Holocaust survivor at the age of 113, passed away.