Monday is the International Memorial Day for the victims of the Holocaust. On this occasion, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg (ÖVP) commemorated the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, 80 years ago. “It is up to each of us to ensure that we do not offer room for hatred and exclusion.”
“For a long time, Austria shunned the confrontation with the darkest chapter in his own history. But today we are confronted with this responsibility – completely, “said Schallenberg in a broadcast on Sunday. When it comes to hatred and exclusion, there may be no false embarrassment or compromises. ” “This is poison for our society.”
There is currently a “huge increase” of anti -Semitic incidents, both worldwide and in Austria. “We are never immune to the repetition of history. This must wake us up. “
Van der Bellen travels to the liberation party
Federal President Alexander van der Bellen travels to Poland with a delegation on Monday and participates in the liberation ceremony on the site of the former Auschwitz concentration camp. The delegation includes Minister Susanne Raab (ÖVP), the president of the Jewish community of Vienna, Oskar Deutsch and the director of the Mauthausen concentration camp monument, Barbara Glück. Representatives from 45 countries are expected in the liberation celebration.
Neos party leader Beate Meinl Reisinger also commemorated the victims of the Holocaust on Sunday. “Never again” refers not only to the extermination camps or the systematic persecution and murder of Jews, but to all mechanisms that exist for it and that undermine an open society, the liberal, democratic attitude and security for Jewish life worldwide and Hollen. Therefore: ‘never again’ is now, “she said in a broadcast.
Source: Krone
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