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Athens News Agency: News in English, 10-01-27
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[01] Greece commemorates Int'l Holocaust Memorial Day
[01] Greece commemorates Int'l Holocaust Memorial Day
(ANA-MPA) -- Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas, in a
statement on the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz
concentration camp and the 10th anniversary of the Stockholm
Declaration on the Holocaust, reiterated on Wednesday that "today, 65
years ago, Allied forces entered the death camp of Auschwitz, putting
an end to an unprecedented disgrace, whose signs remain visible even
today and mar humanity.
"Millions of men and women did not survive to see that day. Others,
however, succeeded, and many of them are still with us, reminding us as
witnesses of the extremities which human existence can reach," the
Greek minister he said, adding: "Greece, honoring the fallen, has
established with a unanimous decision by Parliament, January 27 as a
day of remembrance for the victims of Holocaust."
The Alternate Minister also stressed that WWII victor Greece "is proud
to be one of the countries that were first to sign this monumental
document, which indeed was signed on its behalf, as then foreign
minister, by George Papandreou, the country's current prime minister."
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