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“These clothes represent the latest moment of my daughters, how their lives have been taken, how young they were, angels,” a survivor said in an interview on the occasion of the exhibition "Stories of Survival and Remembrance - A Call to Action for the Prevention of Genocide.” UNIFEED

Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns, co-director of the documentary The US and the Holocaust, said, “the idea that our leaders, our Congress, the State Department, and more importantly for me, the American people” were unaware of the Holocaust, “is just not true.” UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “at its essence, Holocaust remembrance is a call to be on constant alert. Never to be silent in the face of hate. Never tolerant of intolerance. Never indifferent to the suffering of others.” UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “let us stem the tide of human cruelty and fight antisemitism and all forms of racism wherever and whenever it manifests itself,” adding “Let us forever keep the memory of the past alive – and never let others forget either.” UNIFEED

Ahead of his meeting with President of Ukraine Volodymr Zelenskyy and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Secretary-General António Guterres visited the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, cradle of human rights law in Ukraine. He was received by its rector, Volodymyr Melnyk, who explained the University’s and its scholars’ important contributions to the world’s science, international law and diplomacy. OCHA

The President of the 76th Session of the General Assembly, Abdulla Shahid, said that “cyberspace and social media together with the proliferation of disinformation and fake news have aggravated the effects of hate speech to unprecedented heights.” UNIFEED

In his message to a virtual United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony marking the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, Secretary-General António Guterres said “what we see today must worry us – and jolt us into action.” UNIFEED

Secretary-General António Guterres warned of the resurgence of antisemitism, “the oldest form of hate and prejudice,” while welcoming new efforts by the General Assembly and others to clearly define and actively combat Holocaust denial. UNIFEED

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland said the successful completion of inclusive Palestinian elections is a “critical step toward renewing democratic legitimacy of the Palestinian Government,” adding that the path forward “will not be easy and will require political courage from all sides.” UNIFEED

In an event to commemorate the victims of Holocaust, the Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for “coordinated global action” in order to “make an alliance against the rise and spread of neo-Nazism and white supremacy and to combat propaganda and disinformation.” UNIFEED