8 hours agoRama: International Holocaust Day is a reason to feel proud of Albania
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has commemorated International Holocaust Day, which is marked in honour of the millions of victims of Nazi Germany's genocide during World War II. Rama in a Facebook post has written that “International Holocaust Day is a reason to feel proud of Albania and Albanians [...]
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has commemorated International Holocaust Day, which is marked in honour of the millions of victims of Nazi Germany's genocide during World War II.
Rama, in a Facebook post, has written that “International Holocaust Day is a reason to feel proud of Albania and for the Albanians of the darkest time for Europe, who made history by taking defense of Jews when the largest extermination machine of human history, killed the children of Israel as if it were a meat machine produced at the end of hell”
The “is forever forgotten the memory of Holocaust victims”, he said.
In contrast, some six million Jews were killed in Nazi systematic efforts to exterminate them.
The UN General Assembly designated 27 January as the International Holocaust Memorial Day, which coincided with the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps in 1945.
An important role in saving Jews has been played by Albanians who in their families have sheltered many Jews who had fled other countries, or lived in Kosovo and Albania.
