First of all, we think it is very good that today the former concentration camp
is turned into a memorial site.
If we want something like this never to happen again,
it is the right way to inform people about the history.
This causes awareness of the topic,
but still some people don’t get precise information about what suffering
the victims of the Holocaust went through.
Extreme right-wing mindsets could be prevented
by teaching people about what happened.
History taught us a lesson on how a whole society became extremist.
Extremists like the Nazis split a society, made one group hate the other.
This was the first step of mass prosecution and genocide.
All extreme positions are frightening to some people.
And fear will eventually turn to hate,
which leads to separation, causing even more hate to happen.
This vicious cycle will accelerate
and turn to suffering for at least one side of the group.
So if we want a peaceful society,
respecting each other must be the foundation.
If humanity would see itself as one big group,
we wouldn’t have to be afraid of others, which will eventually lead to peace.
Today, as a result of the mass crimes,
we have lot of laws which protect human rights.
In article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations,
it says everyone has the right to life, liberty and the security of person.
Also there exist a lot of different projects.
So for example in many countries there are projects dealing with the question
of free speech, of how democracy works, or helping people to understand each other.
But also today, 80 years after the Second World War, exclusion of humanity exists,
discrimination and bullying around happens every day.