March of the Living. President: No More Hate

Presidents of Poland Andrzej Duda and Israel Isaac Herzog met in a relation with The March of the surviving in Auschwitz. judaic youth from different countries and Polish students commemorate Holocaust victims. respective twelve survivors of the Holocaust are besides present.

The president emphasized that the Nazis created the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, which was transformed into a place of extermination, especially the judaic people, where over 1 million citizens of the Republic of Poland, including Poles, Jews and Roma, were murdered.

“No more hatred, no more anti-Semitism”

Andrzej Duda thanked Herzog for taking part in the March, which, as the Polish president pointed out, is simply a demonstration “first of life, second of memory, but besides a dramatic call ‘never again’, No more hatred, no more chauvinism, no more anti-Semitism‘.

– And most of all, You must not be silent about any manifestations of hatred among the nations, against no racial and cultural hatred. For if he is silent about it, the final effect can be like what happened here, what happened here by the Germans during planet War II, erstwhile they tried to follow cultural hatred, the savage desire for destruction, to wipe out the judaic people from among humanity," said president Duda.

The president stressed that the Holocaust must be remembered as a informing to the planet and as an expression of respect to those who were murdered and who died.

In his interview with Herzog, Andrzej Duda stated that they both expressed hope that The wars in Ukraine and the mediate East ended as shortly as possible. – I would like the war in Ukraine to end with a lasting peace. I hope that possibly the next fewer months, thanks to the efforts made by president Donald Trump, by the American administration – will end in peace – he said, stressing that the peace lasted is 1 that will halt Russian imperialism.

The president stated that he besides talked to Herzog about what is happening in Israel and its neighbourhood, about Russian influences in the mediate East and Russian alliance with Iran. "We both expressed hope that the war that is taking place in the Gaza Strip, which was started with the Hamas attack on Israel, will be completed. That hostages who are inactive in Hamas' hands will be able to return home," said Duda.

“Antisemitism lifts its ugly head”

During statements after the gathering of both leaders Isaac Herzog stressed that the March of the surviving is simply a evidence to a common commitment to combat anti-Semitism.

– On days erstwhile anti-Semitism lifts its ugly headWhen there is hatred of Israel, and erstwhile there are shouts calling for the demolition of Israel, we must stand firm and remind and promise the world: No more said the president of Israel.

He pointed out that the common presence on the March of the surviving reflects the Polish-Jewish commitment to "go together to the future, supporting the memory of the past".

He besides pointed out that “the renewal of the youth delegation between Poland and Israel is simply a very crucial step that shows how much we want to teach future generations about the Holocaust together, about how crucial it is unity and brotherhood between nations and that we want to make the future together."

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