Canada’s Prime Minister issued a statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Justin Trudeau notes that in 2023 the Holocaust seems increasingly distant so, now more than ever, listening to and learning from survivors’ stories is important.

January 27, 1945, the Red Cross liberated more than 7,000 people still held captive in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp.

Because of this the United Nations General Assembly chose January 27 as the International Day of Remembrance and to honour the 6-million Jewish victims of the holocaust.

Trudeau says that day in 1945 and in the weeks that followed, the world saw the true scale of the mass murder, systemic starvation, and genocide that occurred.

The Prime Minister says, “Simply saying ‘never again’ is not enough and Canada must take concrete action to combat the discrimination, hateful rhetoric, and racism that Jewish people and others continue to face.”