Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has addressed the organizers and participants of the "Six Millions of Hearts" event which commemorates the victims of the Holocaust during the Second World War, the Cabinet of Ministers’ press service has reported.
“Dear Friends! Jan. 27, 2015 is the date of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of prisoners from the death camp at Auschwitz, where in a short time two million people were exterminated, with the majority of them being Jews. The decision of the United Nations is to mark this day as International Holocaust Remembrance Day…While commemorating on this day we pay the tribute to the six million victims of the Holocaust, we remember with sorrow the hundreds of thousands who were killed, tortured and exterminated on the territory of Ukraine in those terrible years: Jews, Romanians, Ukrainians and other nationalities,” the premier said.
“We honor those who survived in those inhuman conditions and brought to us the awful truth about where an ideology built on ideas of hatred and fanaticism, the superiority of one nation over others leads.
We strongly condemn all crimes against the Jewish people, all cases of anti-Semitism, genocide, ethnic and religious intolerance,” he said.
“These days, when Ukraine is suffering from military aggression, and the terrorists commit reprisals, and sometimes murders basing on national or religious grounds, we again and again declare the commitment of our people to build our future on the principles of tolerance and mutual respect, respect for the freedom and uniqueness of a person,” the premier said.
