Government Declares 27 January Holocaust Remembrance Day in Slovenia
The government has declared 27 January Holocaust Remembrance Day in Slovenia. The government is aware of the fact that historical remembrance is a key factor preventing such events from repeating, government spokesman Valentin Hajdinjak told the press on Thursday.
This is particularly important in modern times, as there are few Holocaust survivors, who can pass their personal experience of the Holocaust to new generations, according to Hajdinjak.
The government is also making efforts for Slovenia to join the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research, in which Slovenia currently has the status of an observer.
Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the day in 1945 when the Soviet army liberated the survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The United Nations General Assembly declared the day International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a resolution on 1 November 2005.
With the declaration, the UN also wanted to point out the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which defines genocide in legal terms and obliges all signatories to prevent and punish acts of genocide in war and in peacetime.
The UN General Assembly last year also adopted the Holocaust Denial Resolution, condemning any denial of the Holocaust and recommending all its members to reject without reservation any denial of the Holocaust as an historic event.
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