NEW YORK (January 27, 2025) – “As we mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, we remember the victims of the Holocaust, many of them children, and reflect on the ever present dangers of anti-Semitism.

“It has been exactly twenty years since the United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Yet, around the world, there is a growing and chilling rise in anti-Semitism and hate speech.

“Anti-Semitism and other forms of discriminatory or hateful acts targeting any group, especially children, must always be rejected in the strongest terms.

“Children are not born with hate in their hearts – and they must never be the target of it. Anti-Semitism, racism, and discrimination are direct attacks on the rights and well-being of children. There should be no place for hatred in this world.”
 

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