President Steinmeyer: I wish I could say that we Germans have learned the lesson once and for all

The International Holocaust Forum held in Israel is an event in which more than 50 leaders from around the world came to Israel, although some disagreed with Israeli policy. All this to say in a clear and uncompromising voice of the Holocaust must not happen again. State President Reuben Rabin holds dozens of meetings with the leaders who came to Israel and does the characteristic of the necessary statehood. Among the key leaders who came to Israel, we see French President Emmanuel Macron, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who with all his toughness is very close to the Jewish people and only recently met in Moscow with the first Chief Rabbi of Zion Rabbi Joseph. For an hour and a half, the two discussed topics related to Jewish religion. The Jewish President of Ukraine, Zlansky, also came and succeeded in provoking a small scandal when he decided to give his place and the place of his delegation to Holocaust survivors. Yad Vashem criticized the decision, but it must be said honestly that this is a refreshing initiative by a young, vibrant new leader. The Vice President of the United States is also coming to Israel to make it clear that Washington stands without a doubt and without fear alongside the State of the Jewish People. It is imperative to note the arrival of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of the Democratic Party. This is the party that Benjamin Netanyahu has moved away from and it must be said that Pelosi has transcended the narrow political considerations and understood the significance of this important event.
The expected statement from the Holocaust Forum and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in Birkenau must be a warning sign to the world that anti-Semitism is a cancer in our world and should not be lifted as it does in Europe and the United States. 

German President Steinmeier opened his words in Hebrew, saying: "Blessed are you, Lord our God, the King of the world we lived and existed and arrived at this time. It is a gift and an act of kindness to give you things here and there on this day.
According to Steinmeyer, "Here and there is the constant fire burning in memory of victims and survivors of the Holocaust. This place reminds us of their suffering. The suffering of millions. And it reminds us of their lives, each and every one of his and her own life. This place remembers Samuel Titleman, who was a swimmer Talented and won competitions on behalf of Maccabi Warsaw and his little sister Riga who helped her mother cook the sixth meals for the family. This place also remembers Ida Goldish and her three-year-old son. The Germans were the ones who deported them, the Germans stamped a number on their arms and tried to wipe out their memory through death camps. " .
"It is important to say that here as well, those who committed the crimes were also human beings, they were Germans who murdered and planned to murder and the many who silenced a line, they too were Germans," the German president said. "The mass industrialized murder of six million Jews is actually the most heinous crime in modern history against humanity. This crime was perpetrated by my people. The horrific war that took the lives of more than 50 million people has also come out of my country. Today, 75 years After the liberation of Auschwitz, I stand here facing you as President of Germany and I stand here and have the heavy historical journey of blame. "
The German president also addressed the wave of anti-Semitism in Europe. "The evil spirits are now rising," he said. "Both in a new way and presenting anti-Semitic thinking as a solution to the future, a new solution to the problems of our age. And I wish I could say that we Germans have learned the lesson once and for all. But I can't say that when hatred spreads." Steinmeier emphasized that "we are fighting anti-Semitism, we are trying to stand against the poison of nationalism and we stand alongside Israel. I am renewing my promise to the world and I know we are not alone."
United States Vice President Mike Pence said: "At this event, here on Mount Herzl, we were gathered to fulfill a firm commitment of memory. Not to allow the memory of those who died in the Holocaust to be forgotten by anyone, anywhere in the world." He added that "Today we pause to remember what President Trump has called: the dark stain on human history, the greatest evil ever directed from man to man in the history of humanity."
Vice President Pence explained, "We cherish the non-Jewish heroes who saved lives, the ones the Israelis call Righteous Among the Nations. In an age of apathy they acted. In an age of fear, they showed courage, and their memory and example should ignite our hearts to do the same today. . He said, "We must confront and expose the murky wave of anti-Semitism that encourages hatred and violence throughout the world and must stand together against it."
"The same spirit must stand strong against anti-Semitism, against the only government in the world that denies the Holocaust as a policy and threatens to erase Israel from the map. The world must stand strong against the Islamic Republic of Iran," Pence stressed. "We need the courage to acknowledge all the leaders and nations gathered here, that today we have the responsibility and power to ensure that what we remember today will never happen again. Stated in Jerusalem, the connection between our peoples is intertwined in our hearts and so will always be "
"The same spirit must stand strong against anti-Semitism, against the only government in the world that denies the Holocaust as a policy and threatens to erase Israel from the map. The world must stand strong against the Islamic Republic of Iran," Pence stressed. "We need the courage to acknowledge all the leaders and nations gathered here, that today we have the responsibility and power to ensure that what we remember today will never happen again. Stated in Jerusalem, the connection between our peoples is intertwined in our hearts and so will always be "
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Holocaust was a lesson to be remembered, provided the memory is full and unadulterated. We are learning the lessons of the Holocaust and today these lessons are becoming games by some people, leaders and public figures. Their job is to protect the memory of residents, soldiers, Nazi victims and their collaborators. "
Prince Charles said, "The sheer scale of the Holocaust that has fallen upon the Jewish people, no one can understand what those who lived in the shadow of this atrocity are. It is inconceivable. Many of you, the Jews who live around the world, are your stories - whether You have experienced it yourself or you have experienced them from the stories of family members or family members you did not know, but these stories are also our own stories. All of humanity must learn lessons from them. Evil, even if not understandable, does not mean that it can not be beat. "

The fact that sixty percent of European Jews are considering leaving it for fear of their lives is worrying even if they may be joined by Jews in the State of Israel. World leaders who joined the Holocaust Forum yesterday and today must say - never again to anti-Semitism.
Avner Shalev, chairman of Yad Vashem and Moshe Kantor, president of the World Holocaust Forum Foundation, presented a book at Yad Vashem to a book containing 50 letters from around 50 world leaders and leaders who were invited to participate in the World Holocaust Forum. They have been included in a book titled "Remembering the Holocaust, Fighting Anti-Semitism" and will be presented to leaders and guests who attend the event. The book includes, for example, letters from the President of the United States, Albania, the King of Belgium, the President of Lithuania, the King of the Netherlands and the United Nations Secretary-General.
Many of the leaders focused on the fees they wrote about the need to take steps to prevent anti-Semitism and other hate actions. Pope Francis wrote: "I express my great hope that through continued vigilance and significant education, the injustice perpetrated during one of the darkest periods of our history will be erased from the face of the earth.
"Holocaust memory, education and research are needed to stop the anti-Semitism and hatred that is spreading too much again," wrote Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Aunty wrote: "The memory of the Holocaust and World War II must be a warning for us and our descendants," he wrote. "It's our duty to do everything we can to ensure that such a nightmare never happens again."
Shalev expressed regret that the Polish president did not usually come here who has a good professional working relationship with Poland and this will continue in the future - there was a political misunderstanding here We believe that the memory of the Holocaust should be conducted by historians and scholars and this is what Yad Vashem does. This stage is open to many nations' leaders to speak with one voice against aestheticism and xenophobia.
Shalio added that the idea of ​​the event was to bring together leaders from the Banal community to express their commitment to Holocaust memory and understanding its significance and to fight anti-Semitism worldwide, which is why we gathered here today.
Nearly 50 leaders come here and that means a lot. We see a unified front of leaders who came to express a thought and present their mission to fight the world's rising anti-Semitism and danger and to work for human rights all over the world.
It surprised us that so many invited leaders arrived.