27/01/2025
๐๐ผ๐น๐ผ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ฒ๐บ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฎ๐ - ๐ก๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ด๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป ๐ถ๐ ๐ป๐ผ๐.
๐ผ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ค๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ฃ๐, ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ ๐ ๐คโ๐๐ก โ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐ โ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐.
Primo Levi, Partisan, Writer and Holocaust Survivor.
Today we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German N**i concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
This is the reason 27th of January became the annual International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, established by United nations in 2005.
Every year we reunite on this day to reflect on the horror, to say Never Again, to remember victims and to use memory as an active tool of resistance against the hatred, the abominations produced by discrimination and divisions among people, which provoked millions of deaths among the community of Jewish, LGBTQI+, Roma and people with disabilities, while also progressively destroying the fundamental values of democracies and human rights.
The aftermath of this human catastrophe led to the establishment of the United Nations themselves and to the drafting of the main human rights conventions everywhere, to enable the application of those rights and to block any possible attempt to re-enact such horrors.
Nonetheless we found ourselves in a moment in which such values are dangerously compromised, with the constant threat to democratic structures and with an increasingly scary polarisation among people everywhere, thus creating enemy among fellow humans, dehumanising whoever seems different and reproducing a perfect scenario for hatred to generate pure evil.
Eighty years later, time may fade memories, but we must resist forgetfulness. By remembering the victims but also those who transformed society through resilience and activism, so that we can forever strengthen our resolve to protect human rights and unity.
With this spirit we want to commemorate this Holocaust Memorial Day with our usual call, ๐
