Announcement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the International and National Day of Commemoration in memory of the Jewish Victims of the Holocaust (27.01.2025)

Announcement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the International and National Day of Commemoration in memory of the Jewish Victims of the Holocaust (27.01.2025)

January 27, 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau camp by the Soviet army and the International and National Day of Commemoration in memory of the Jewish Victims of the Holocaust.

Six million Jews were exterminated by the Nazis throughout Europe and among them 67,151 Greeks. We pay tribute to the victims of Nazi atrocities.

Today, with very few of the survivors still alive, our duty and responsibility to pass on to the younger generations the respect, the knowledge and the memory of the Holocaust grows ever more important. The most heinous crime, the mass murder against humanity itself during the Second World War, must ‘’NEVER AGAIN’’ be repeated.

It is our duty to intensify the collective struggle against anti-Semitism, racism, intolerance and discrimination and to work together for the peaceful coexistence of all human beings.

January 27, 2025