Pressmeddelande från YHRM (länk)
(Russian Federation)
In the evening of the 27th of January the Great Hall of the Central House of Literary Men in Moscow was overcrowded. War veterans and pupils, teachers and students, politicians and cultural workers gathered in a token of memory about the six million killed people during the Holocaust.
In 2005 UN General Assembly declared the 27th of January as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
In Russia the “Holocaust” Centre and Foundation in cooperation with the Moscow government, Israel Embassy in Russia, Russian Jewish Congress and other organizations have arranged memorial evenings since 1995.
This year on the initiative of the Moscow mayor the Department of Education offered all schools to conduct lessons for tolerance devoted to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The memorial evening was finished by awarding the winners of the VI International contest “Lessons of Holocaust – the way to tolerance”.
Iguda Bauer – historian and philosopher – the survivor of the Holocaust – said: “Memory about Holocaust is necessary in order that our children will never become victims, executioners or indifferent witnesses”. May be in these words we can find explanation – why the House of Literay Men was overcrowded on that cold winter evening, the 27th of January.
