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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there is a Yiddish saying, ‘Remember, and do not forget’. It is crucial for our fellow citizens to understand the uniqueness of the Holocaust, and we must be extremely vigilant faced with the resurgence of anti-Semitism. I am also a little surprised to see only the word ‘racism’ on the notice board, when the title of our colleague’s, Mr Schulz’s, oral question was in fact ‘Anti-Semitism and racism’. I am surprised that the title is not given in full.
The living memory of the generations of survivors will shortly die out. Hence, the need for the institutions to pass on the memory of the genocide to younger generations. I should like to submit a practical proposal to you. I suggest that the European Union require all schools to affix commemorative plaques to their walls, bearing the names of those former pupils who were deported and did not return. A ceremony in memory of these children could be organised on 27 January of each year. In the same way, I propose that plaques denouncing the collaboration that took place be placed outside police stations, law courts or regional administrative offices that issued deportation orders and whose officials were cowardly enough to allow the anti-Semitic barbarity to be perpetrated.
If we allow the horrors of the past to sink into oblivion, future generations will not understand the need to combat the questioning of universal values of tolerance and freedom."@en1
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