U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday the Nazis tried to rob millions of Jews of their names before killing them during World War II -- but at the inauguration of an installation with the names of 4.8 million Holocaust victims he said they failed and all those slaughtered 'shall never be forgotten.'
Dani Dayan, Chairman of Yad Vashem, browses the pages of the Yad Vashem Book of Names of Holocaust Victims Exhibit before the arrival of Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary General, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, at United Nations headquarters. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday the Nazis tried to rob millions of Jews of their names before killing them during World War II -- but at the inauguration of a U.N. installation with the names of 4.
The big installation -- "The Book of Names of Holocaust Victims" -- was brought to U.N. headquarters in New York by Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem. Yad Vashem's chairman, Dani Dayan, spoke of two names in the book, his great uncles, saying the Nazis and their collaborators "driven by maniacal hatred of Jews, and anything they perceived as Jewish," sought to exterminate every Jew everywhere and erase their names, identities and culture.
"History never repeats itself exactly, but phenomena of extreme anti-Semitism and other forms of racial hatred, aggressive violence, corrupt dictatorships are recurring," Dayan said. He also warned against "forces of evil" distorting and denying the Holocaust, saying these lies are proliferating "at terrible speeds" on the internet.
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