Cypriot female politicians paid tribute to the millions of Jews who were murdered in the Nazi concentration camps, by reading excerpts from books that refer to the reality of the concentration and extermination camps of the Nazi regime.
An Israeli Embassy press release said the President of the House of Representatives, Annita Demetriou, the Minister of Education, Sports and Youth, Dr Athena Michaelidou, the Deputy Minister of Culture, Dr Vasiliki Kassianidou and the Deputy Minister of European Affairs, Marilena Raouna, read selected texts, from Primo Levi’s autobiographical book “If This Is a Man” and Eli Wiesel’s “Night”, two books which are the most shocking testimonies of Auschwitz survivors and have been constant points of reference in camp literature over time.
The Holocaust is a special historical event, a milestone in human history, the Embassy said, noting that “the preservation of the historical memory of the Holocaust concerns everyone as a response to the fight against any phenomenon of intoler
ance and anti-Semitism, which to this day have not disappeared. ”
Source: Cyprus News Agency