San Marino. Day of Remembrance, the Regency: “Memory of the Shoah, a formative moment for consciences”
“Today 27 January – anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp – the International Day of Remembrance is celebrated
of the victims of the Holocaust ”.
Thus opens the Message of the Most Excellent Regency on the occasion of the celebration of the International Day of Remembrance, and continues: “Memory, Dignity and Justice are the themes placed by the United Nations at the center of attention and reflection on this day. Remembering, commemorating also means in this third millennium giving back to the victims of the Shoah the dignity denied them and doing them justice, preventing, with the passing of the years, a culpable oblivion of the terrible tragedy that overwhelmed Europe in the last century.
The refusal of any form of displacement and denial, the commitment of the survivors to preserve the memory of the horror and leave testimony of it, have contributed to making the Holocaust a turning point for building new forms of coexistence between men and , founded on the values of respect for life and the dignity of every human being, of freedom and tolerance which, as history shows us, can never be considered acquired forever.
It is the responsibility of the institutions, schools and civil society to work to ensure that the Shoah can continue to represent collective memory to be transmitted to each new generation, as a warning for the present and for the future so that never less commitment and determination to prevent anti-Semitism and every form of racism, discrimination and hatred towards the different and the most fragile.
A risk that, unfortunately, we know to be always present, especially in moments and contexts of greater precariousness and difficulty, wherever it is easier to have followed forms of incitement to violence and prevarication against people or communities.
The meaning of this day, the homage we pay to the victims today is, therefore, inseparable from the ability to make the memory of the Shoah become a formative moment of things, to be able to bring attention and sensitivity to respect for the rights of every human being, in them by religion, age and culture.
Today we also remember with deep gratitude those who, in the most difficult and darkest moments, at the risk of their own lives, did not remain passive in the face of the tragedy of the Holocaust. Among them also Sammarinesi who, with their example, testify to us how much the freedom of our similitude also depends on our civic commitment and on the moral strength of the ground for an indifference that, yesterday as today, risks re-proposing itself as fertile for the spread of belly of intolerance and violence.
In this spirit, we express our appreciation to all those who, in the context of institutions, schools, information and culture, strive to promote on this Day moments of knowledge and reflection to keep the conscience so that what happened in the last century does not have to repeat itself “.