January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The Holocaust was the persecution and mass destruction of European Jews by the Nazis during World War II.
In 2007, UN General Assembly Resolution 61/255 was adopted, which urged all countries to reject any denial of the Holocaust and honor the memory of those who died at the hands of the Nazis.
We mourn for the victims of the Holocaust. This pain is close to us, because the Crimean Tatar people survived the Deportation in 1944 and today the persecution of the Crimean Tatars on ethnic grounds in the occupied Crimea continues.
Today, more than ever, we must be united to prevent this from happening. This is a lesson that should forever keep the world from xenophobia and the persecution of people on an ethnic basis.