‘6 million Jews were victims of the Nazism, with 40 percent of them being the citizens of former Soviet Union, so we do know what the pain of the Holocaust consists in. The same atrocities awaited other so-called inferior nations: Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Poles, Gypsies. These plans were thwarted as a result of the victory of the anti-Nazi coalition in 1945,’ said Ambassador Sergey Andreev.
‘The memory of World War II and its victims should remain the most powerful factor of rejecting all over the world the idea of the war itself. Never again. Let the peaceful sky dominate all of us forever,’ he added.
Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński,Director of the Auschwitz Museum, was the last speaker during the commemoration event.
‘As it is impossible to bring the victims back to life, a child-survivor would not have their childhood restored either. The childhood in the frantic world of the adults. While looking into the eyes of the youngest victims of Auschwitz, one cannot but ask about ourselves, the post-war generation. As today the children are also murdered, they are sold, abused as slaves, hungry and starved, abandoned and lonely,’ he said.
‘Never before were the people as powerful and skilful as today. Whereas we all care more about our own convenience in our world than for creating a better world for the children and the entire future,’ he added.
‘Today, where can the future be seen better than in our today’s passivity, inability to react, to give a helping hand? We delude ourselves that wars, disasters or pandemics change the world. But our passivity is the greatest source of victims. And among them, the weakest, the most trustful and innocent – are always the children’, Piotr Cywiński emphasized.