site.btaPresident Radev Honours International Holocaust Remembrance Day

On Saturday, President Radev wrote on his X social media profile: "On, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, raising a voice for the importance of humanism, we stand firm in the fight against xenophobia and hatred".

The rescue of nearly 50,000 Bulgarian Jews during the Second World War is a vivid example of the power of public energy, added the President.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day has been commemorated since 2006 with resolution A/RES/60/7 of the UN General Assembly of November 1, 2005. The date marks the anniversary of the liberation on January 27, 1945 of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet troops. Between 1940 and 1945, one million Jews died in the camp. The resolution calls on UN member states to pass on the lessons of the genocide to future generations so that it cannot be repeated in the future.