CAMIPER attended a commemorative photographic exhibition held in the Municipality of Barranco.
To commemorate the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the United Nations System, the Embassy of Israel in Peru and the Municipality of Barranco carried out the photographic exhibition titled “El Estado de engaño. El poder de la propaganda nazi” (The State of Deception. The Power of Nazi Propaganda).
Likewise, the general secretary of the Consultative Council of the Mining Chamber of Peru and advisor to the Commission of Culture and Cultural Heritage of the Congress of the Republic, Dr. Carlos Castagnola, together with the Israeli ambassador in Peru, Dr. Raphael Singer, and the mayor of Barranco, Antonio Mezarina. In addition, representatives of the United Nations and 2 survivors of the holocaust present in the Pergola of the Municipal Park of the Barranco district.
The representatives lighted six candles in a ceremony during the event. Each candle represented one of the six million victims of the holocaust. An event considered the most terrible expression of fanaticism and xenophobia in the history of mankind and perpetrated by Nazi Germany.
On November 1, 2005, the General Assembly decided that the UN establishes January 27th as the annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. This date was chosen as on this same day in 1945, the Soviet troops liberated the concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau from the Nazi.
Likewise, the Secretary General of the organization expressed that “we are seeing how intolerance takes hold in the normal course of politics, grips minorities, the Muslim community, immigrants and refugees. In addition, it takes advantage of the anger and anxiety that arise in a changing world.”
That is why, now more than ever, we must unite on this occasion. To fight for universal values while making a world based on equality.
