On the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Prime Minister Dorin Recean said that the memory of those sufferings reminds us of our responsibility to build a future based on peace and harmony. “We commemorate with respect and sorrow the victims of the Holocaust - a dark chapter in human history in which more than 6 million Jewish children, women, men and older people, Romanies and other nationalities paid with their lives for the horrors of a Nazi regime,” reads the message.

Dorin Recean urged society to never forget the painful lessons of history and to build a future when any act of genocide and any form of discrimination and hatred is prevented – a future based on mutual respect and diversity.

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed on January 27. This date marks the liberation of Nazi concentration camps and the end of the Holocaust in which millions of Jews were killed by the Nazi regime during World War II. To this day, the exact number of Jews and Romanies killed in the Holocaust is unknown. The figure that is most often pronounced by historians is over 6 million people, of whom 1.5 million were children.

Moldova’s Parliament in 2016 adopted a Declaration on the acceptance of the Final Report of the International Commission for the Study of the Holocaust, chaired by Elie Wiesel, and January 27 was designated as the National Holocaust Remembrance Day.