The International Holocaust Remembrance Day reminds of one of the darkest pages of European history, which remains a deep wound for the entire humanity, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration (MFAEI). In a press release, the Ministry notes that 79 years after that tragic episode of history, together with the international community, it pays tribute to those who suffered on Moldovan land and keeps alive the memory of the victims of that unparalleled cataclysm in the history of humanity, IPN reports.

“Today all our compassion goes to the survivors of that horrible crime against humanity, to their descendants and relatives,” wrote the MFAEI.

The Ministry said that it is everyone’s moral responsibility to build a society based on mutual respect, understanding, empathy and diversity, on the culture of tolerance and nondiscrimination, of combating anti-Semitism and other forms of xenophobia. Cultivating the memory of the Holocaust as well as the memory of all victims of totalitarian regimes is a duty of democratic societies.

“Our commitment has materialized through the adoption of clear policy documents, taking the form of sequential action plans. In this respect, concrete results were achieved in education, historical research, consolidation of the internal legal framework, which ensure greater coherence in society,” the Ministry’s press release reads.

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.