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Holocaust Remembrance Day marked in Kathmandu

KATHMANDU, May 3: The Embassy of Israel and Kathmandu University jointly organized a program to mark the Israeli Ho...
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KATHMANDU, May 3: The Embassy of Israel and Kathmandu University

jointly organized a program to mark the Israeli Holocaust Remembrance

Day "Yom HaShaoh" on Friday.



The program was held at the presence of the professors, teachers and

students of Kathmandu University in Dhulikhel to remember the six

million Jews murdered during the Holocaust between 1939 to 1945.

Israel marks the Holocaust Remembrance Day one week prior to its

Independence Day, which falls on 9 May this year.



Speaking during the memorial, Vice Chancellor of Kathmandu University

Ram K. Shrestha said, “we are here to share norms and abnorms, things

we can do and not, with the future generations. The Holocaust, where

millions of people were murdered including 6 million Jews in Europe,

should not repeat.”



Benny Omer, Ambassador of Israel, remarked that around two- thirds of

the Jewish populations of Europe were systematically murdered by Nazi

Germany aided by local collaborators during World War II (1941-1945).

One of the worst events occurring in the history of mankind, this

event was conducted in ghettos or concentration camps where large

number of Jews were brought in, forced to work in terrible conditions

and murdered in Gas chambers'.


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This is the first time the Holocaust memorial ceremony was organized

outside Kathmandu. "This event has been an important milestone in

spreading the message of tolerance and fighting against racism and

educating the future generation not to repeat such brutality in any

form," read a press statement issued by the Israel Embassy in

Kathmandu.



The memorial ceremony was followed by a display of an exhibition

entitled "Beyond the Duty", which portrays role of diplomats during

World War II who acted against their own Government instructions to

save lives of thousands of Jews, risking their own lives.



The exhibition remains open to public from 2-15 May 2019 during office

hours at the Gallery of Kathmandu Universitypremises, Dhulikhel.

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