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Message from Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, 27 January 2009
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Message from Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, 27 January 2009In December 2007, UNESCO launched a year-long commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a text that was developed following the ravages of the second world war and the atrocities that were committed during that period. Today, 60 years on, we stand in honour of the victims and the survivors of those years, when the Holocaust violated the basic human rights of millions of men, women and children. This date, the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, provides a time and a space for collective reflection and remembrance of this tragic episode of world history.

Yet even when today we bow our heads to those who lost their lives or their loved ones, we recognize that the human spirit endures and that by remembering the horrors of what happened we can, and indeed should, come together to actively prevent such devastation from ever occurring again. For it is from the seeds of ignorance that hatred is grown and we have, in the international community, a collective moral responsibility to ensure that such hatred is not allowed to prosper.

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Author(s) Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO
Publication Date 26-01-2009
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