26.1.2012. 7:20 |
Novi predsjednik Evropskog parlamenta
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The new President of the European Parliament opens International Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony by stressing the German ‘specific responsibility’
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
The European Jewish Press, By Yossi Lempkowic
Novi predsjednik Evropskog parlamenta je naglasio Njemačku " specifičnu odgovornost", prilikom otvaranja Međunarodnog dana sjećanja na Holokaust
"As a German
representative who was born after World War II , I feel that I have a
very specific responsibility. Because what was decided at the so-called
Wannsee conference, the extermination of the Jewish people, was done in
the name of the German people," he said at the event organized Tuesday
by the European Jewish Congress to mark International Holocaust
remembrance Day.
This year marks 70 years since the Wannsee Conference and 50 years since the end of the trial of Adolf Eichmann.
"Kao
predstavnik Njemačke , koji je rođen nakon Drugog Svjetskog rata, ja osjećam da imam vrlo specifičnu odgovornost, zbogonoga što je odlučeno na tzv Vannsee konferenciji, da se sprovede eksterminacija židovskog naroda u ime njemačkog naroda"rekao je prilikom obilježavanja Međunarodnog dana sjećanja na Holokaust koji je organizirao Evropski židovski kongres.
Ove se godine označava 70 godina od Wannsee konferencije i 50 godina od suđenja Adolfu Eichmannu.
"I am a representative of the German people and the German people of today is not guilty but responsible to keep the memory and to never forget what happened. For me, this means whoever is representing today the German nation has one first duty : to take into account our responsibility for the Jews in the world."
"My first duty as a German representative and as President of this parliament is to say : never more," he added.
"Whatever happens
in the world today regarding anti-Semitism or actions against the
existence of the Jewish community or the state of Israel, we are the
first who have to defend our Jewish friends," Schultz said.
Ja sam predstavnik njemačkog naroda , a njemački narod danas nije kriv ali nosi odgovornost da održava sjećanje i da nikada ne zaboravi što se dogodilo.
Za mene to znači da gdje god se danas predstavlja, njemački narod ima prvu dužnost: da uzme u obzir našu odgovornost za Židove u svijetu.
"Moja prva dužnost kao predstavnika Njemačke i kao predsjednika ovog Parlamenta je da kažem " nikada više". Štogod se dogodilo u današnjem svijetu u odnosu na antisemitizam ili u akcijama protiv egzistemncije židovske zajednice ili države Izrael, mi moramo biti prvi koji ćemo braniti naše židovske prijatelje" rekao je Schulz.
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"The Holocaust must always be fresh in our minds and souls, in the conscience of humanity, and should serve as an incontrovertible warning for all time."
Schulz has decided that from next yar the Holocaust Remembrance Day which commemorates the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on 27 January 1945 ill become an official annual event of the European Parliament.
During the ceremony, European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor called on Europe "to recognize evil and prevent its reemergence."
"If we don’t remember it, and don’t study it, and don’t learn about it, we cannot learn from it ; we can never be confident we can recognize it and stop its emergence in time," Kantor told the audience which also included Israel’s Minister for Public Diplomacy and Diaspora, Yuli Edelstein, as well as several EU Commissoners and ambassadors.
The ceremony, which began with ’El Maleh Rahamim’, the Jewish memorial prayer, was marked by moving testimonies from Holocaust survivor Chana Bar-Yesha, who lives in Israel, Andrée Geulen-Herscovici, a Belgian Righteous Among the Nations who saved around 4,000 Jewish children during the Holocaust, and Justice Gabriel Bach who was the senior prosecutor at the Adolf Eichmann trial in Jerusalem in 1961.
Earlier, at at joint press conference with Minister Edelstein, Moshe Kantor applauded Monday’s EU decision to impose an oil embargo on Iran, calling it an "historic move."
He also said that "we are witnessing a rise in anti-Semitism" in Europe. He mentioned in particular Sweden which, he said, "has become the center of anti-Semitism." "In the city of Malmö, for example, Jews have disappeared because of this situation and the Swedish government doesn’t react."
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