Pope Francis calls for eradicating anti -Semitism, says the horror of the Holocaust should never forget
Pope Francis warned of the “monster of anti -Semitism” in his prayer the Angel of the Lord on Sunday, on the eve of the International Memorial Day of the Holocaust, pointing out that the 80th anniversary of Liberation Auschwitz concentration camp.
“The horror of extermination millions of Jewish people And others of different faiths during those years should never be forgotten or denied, “said Francis, citing the example of the poet of Hungarian origin, Edith Bruck, who lives in Rome.
I re -invite everyone to work together to eradicate the monster of anti -Semitism, along with every form of discrimination and religious persecution, Francis said. “We build a fraternity together, a righteous world, raising young people to have hearts open to everyone, in the spirit of fraternity, forgiveness and peace.”
He noted that many Christians were killed in Nazi concentration camps, “among whom were numerous martyrs.”
When is the day of memory of the Holocaust 2025?
The International Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust It falls on January 27, as determined by the General Assembly of the United Nations.
On January 27, 1945. Soviet soldiers entered the Auschwitz concentration camp, the largest of its kind, and liberated about 7,000 prisoners.
How will the Holocaust Remembrance Day be celebrated?
Presidents, royal family, ambassadors, rabbis and priests will join on Monday afternoon Holocaust survivors in Southern Poland, where Nazi Germany killed more than one million people, mostly Jews, but also Poles, Roma and Sin, Soviet war prisoners, homosexuals and homosexuals Others who were the met of eliminations in the racial ideology of Adolf Hitler.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau National Museum says she expects about 50 survivors from Auschwitz and other camps to attend events.
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum will transmit a live event with three survivors, Ruth Cohen, Steven Fenves and Irene Weiss. They were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 and could not talk about the Holocaust for years, the Museum said.
Now, 80 years after the camp release, they will tell their experiences.
Jom Hasho
The second internationally renowned date for the Holocaust Memorial Day is 27. The day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. In Hebrew it is called Yom Hashoah, and the date is in memory of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto.
This year, Yom Hashoah will be celebrated on Thursday, April 24, in Israel because the actual date falls on Friday when Sabbath is celebrated, according to Holocaust Memorial Museum of United States.
In the US, Memorial Days run from Sunday before Yom Hashoah until next Sunday.
