The president of the National Assembly, Mihail Mikov and Members of the Parliament have honored the memory of the Holocaust victims in front of the Dimitar Peshev’s Monument in the capital. The ceremony marking the anniversary of the liberation of the biggest Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz – Birkenau was attended by the Mayor of Sofia, Yordanka Fandakova, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Israel H. E. Shaul Camisa-Raz, Ambassadors, the Head of the Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria, Maxim Benvenisti, politicians, public figures and citizens.
The years take us away from that time, but we should never forget this tragic part of the European and World history when one misanthropic theory, transformed in a tragic practice, led to a war in which 50 million people died, noted the head of the Parliament. More than 6 million of them were sent to concentration camps - as proof of what the grimmest human thought – the fascist theory - could invent, added Mihail Mikov. On this day, we should recall the unbelievable feat of Dimitar Peshev, of the 43 Members of the Parliament, of the Bulgarian Orthodox Clergymen and before all of the Bulgarian citizens who had not allowed tens of thousands Bulgarian Jews to go to the death camps. Bulgaria has all rights to be proud with the exploit of its people.
The memory of the Holocaust should be addressed before all to the young generation, stated Mihail Mikov. In his words –“we should view this gloomy episode of human history as something that should never to be repeated and the current generations should promise to follow the example of Dimitar Peshev, of the Bulgarian clerics and citizens in those grim years of the Holocaust”.