Mauricio Macri participated in the commemoration of the Holocaust: "Nobody feels that his life is in danger because it is considered different"

"Today is present the first president of history who accompanies us in International Holocaust Remembrance Day, "said DAIA leader Jorge Knoblovitz, in front of an audience moved by the painful memory of the genocide of 6 million people, including 1.5 million children. Act began by lighting the six candles of memory, interpreted by the survivors and grandchildren of the victims.

The United Nations adopted resolution 60/71 in November 2005, which instituted the day of the entry of the Soviet army into the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on 27 January 1945. the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Thus, since 2006, this tribute is made in Argentina, when the DAIA invited Néstor Kirchner, who sent this invitation to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. However, Chancellor Jorge Taiana was not present either, but he moved the performance to Roberto García Moritán.

This is how the Kirchner years went. In 2015, it was the government itself that invited the tribute. On this occasion, it was the Jewish community that snubbed the government, the prosecutor Alberto Nisman having died a few days ago, in a difficult context that presumed the badbadination. In 2016, the link between the government and community entities has radically changed until this year, when the highest authority shared the meaning of the tribute to the victims.

The Great Hall of San Martin Palace was full by the presence of Chancellor Jorge Faurie, Minister of Education, Alejandro Finocchiaro, Secretary of Human Rights, Claudio Avruj, Secretary of the Environment, Sergio Bergman, President of the INADI, Claudio Presman, members Waldo Wolf and Daniel Lipovetizky, author Marcos Aguinis, ambbadadors Eduardo Prado (United States) and Mark Kent (Great Britain), among survivors, relatives victims and leaders of the Jewish community.

Knoblovitz also recalled that he was participating for the last time in this memory exercise in 2013. "A few days after the signing of the memorandum of understanding between our country and the Islamic Republic of Iran, a country that denies the Holocaust and violates all the badumptions of inclusivity, diversity and democracy that we aspire to "he said.

"We have already learned that hatred, racism and anti-Semitism never die, each genocide begins with the construction of a prejudice, we are careful to identify and rebuild them", he declares. In addition, he stressed that Argentina wasThe only country in Latin America member of the International Alliance for the Remembrance of the Holocaust.

The most dramatic speech was that of Monica Dawidowcz, who was named Rojele when she was born in a Lida ghetto, and Irina when she was entrusted to a Polish family that was protecting her and Raquel, at different stages of her life. life.. The story was scary. His family was decimated by the death of 41 members who lost their lives during the Holocaust and by arriving in Montevideo with six years of living with their uncles as true parents.

"Forty years, it took me to rebuild my story"He counted and raised the voice "on behalf of those who have no voice because they were annihilated, on behalf of the survivors whose eyes have seen it unimaginable, as we witness each and every one of them. once we are summoned, opening our hearts not to forget, deny and trivialization. "And ended up adhering to the words of the current secretary for human rights, Claudio Avruj, executive director of DAIA for many years, for whom "It is imperative that states investigate, commemorate and educate".

The president spoke after her and, of course, it was not easy. "The loss has been immense and that is why our recognition and our memory must also be", "so that these processes of mbad violence and violence will not happen again." that no one anywhere on the planet thinks that his life is in danger because he is considered different"he said

Macri said that "Personally, I am deeply attached to the memory of the Holocaust. and it is a commitment of my entire government, "while thanking the World Jewish Council for promoting the supported campaign #WeRemember, as well as the wider Jewish community for its efforts to spread the word about Holocaust.