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AUSCHWITZ / SARAJEVO, January 27 (FENA) - BiH Presidency member Šefik Džaferović, with delegations from more than 50 countries, many of whom led by heads of state, joined two hundred survivors of the Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau camp on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of that camp in Poland.
He said that human and civilizational obligation is to remember the victims of the Holocaust, the greatest crime of the last century, and to remember them because the crime committed by Hitler Nazis must remain forever in the collective memory of the human race.
At the same time, Džaferović added, it is an obligation to firmly oppose ideologies of evil that can eliminate an entire nation, as well as those who deny those crimes.
"Unfortunately, the suffering of the Jewish people in World War II was obviously not enough warning to some people and politicians that similar evils should never be repeated again," Džaferović said.
He recalled that 50 years after the Holocaust, the genocide was committed against Bosniak people in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is why, now more than ever, it remains a duty to oppose anti-Semitism, divisive policies, the strengthening of right-wing populist movements in Europe and the world, and any other kind of extremism.
The main commemoration on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp was held in front of the "door of death" of the former camp, where Polish President Andrzej Duda addressed the audience.
This was followed by an address of representatives of the survivors, representatives of the Pillars of Remembrance organization and Director of the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum, Piotr Cywiński.
At the end of the main ceremony, candles were lit in front of the plaques of the Memorial Center and the Main Monument, where the head of the BiH delegation also paid tribute to the victims of the Holocaust, the BiH Presidency satated.
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