Mr. Speaker, today is Yom Hashoah, which this year marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust and the horror of the concentration camps in Europe.
Millions of men, women and children perished under the yoke of Nazi tyranny. Remembering the victims of the Holocaust and the tens of millions of people of all nationalities who died during the Second World War brings to mind how fragile life and liberty are.
Fifty years after the war, the world is still the scene of planned exterminations. Mass killings and hatred are daily realities. To forget is to allow ourselves to condone violence. To remember is to be mindful of our collective responsibility to oppressed nations.