30577 - Holocaust Commemoration Day

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Vicky Baklessi

Those who have forgotten what the term genocide means are condemned to live it. Those who lived it, will not forget, because it now belongs to their history. And those who are Just will always be beside the innocents, along with victims, against the barbarians. The commemoration day of the Holocaust reminds us that the victims of Natzism are not only a few, but an entire part of Humanity. It also reminds us the barbarity of acts, the hardships and the tortures of the victims in the concentration camps and the execution camps. Shoah is not simply a crime against the Jews, but against Humanity, as every genocide is. The Holocaust was the ultimate solution for those who believed and also made others believe that the strangers were at fault for everything, those who are different, those who are not the same. At the same period, in the same manner, the Nazi exterminated the Gypsies, the homosexuals, the people with special needs, because they only wanted one breed, only one race without realizing how degenerating their thinking was, without placing boundaries on their barbarity and the horror. We too mustn’t forget this day, if we want to say that we belong to Humanity and that we fight against barbarity. Otherwise if we forget such days, such black pages of History, we are condemned to relive them. The Holocaust shows also the struggle that the victims have to follow and the Just in order to save the mnemosyne of the victims. We can resist to the genocide of memory, as long as we want it, as long as we feel the responsibility and not only the duty. Because even now there are people that want to annihilate the Holocaust, who want to assassinate also death, who want to erase our memory so that there be no victims, so that there be no perpetrators so that there be no crime. But we will resist and we will not forget the genocide.