The Diplomat
The Senate welcomed yesterday, for the eighth consecutive year, the State Act on the Official Day of the Memory of the Holocaust and Prevention of Crimes against Humanity, established by the Council of Ministers on December 10, 2004.
During the ceremony, chaired by the President of the Senate, Pio García Escudero, the Minister of Justice, Dolores Delgado, declared that “the Holocaust represents a defeat of Humanity in the face of evil and ignorance”, and the president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain, Isaac Querub, paid tribute to “all the victims of that planned death system” in which “all sectors of the Nazi State” collaborated and assured that the Jews do not want “to do victimhood with the Holocaust, but to remember and denounce anti-Semitism”.
For his part, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Josep Borrell, highlighted the work of Spanish diplomats during Nazism and made a confession about his childhood, when in a small town, in the fifties, he participated in a pogrom alongside other children, armed with rattles and making noise, shouting “to kill Jews”. “When I remember it now, it is easier for me to understand Auschwitz”, acknowledged the minister, who highlighted the importance of education as a weapon to fight the ignorant action of the masses.
