Greek PM at Yad Vashem

25 November 2015

During his tour of the Holocaust History Museum, Prime Minister Tsipras viewed train tickets that Greek Jews were forced to purchase ahead of their transport to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp.

Yad Vashem guide Sheryl Ochayon showed the Prime Minister a Page of Testimony commemorating Rachel Sara Osmo, aged eight, from Corfu, who was murdered in Auschwitz together with her parents. The Page was submitted by her older sister, Nata.

Yad Vashem guide Sheryl Ochayon showed the Prime Minister a Page of Testimony commemorating Rachel Sara Osmo, aged eight, from Corfu, who was murdered in Auschwitz together with her parents. The Page was submitted by her older sister, Nata, a member of the resistance who survived a number of camps and later immigrated to Israel.

The Prime Minister was honored with rekindling the eternal flame in the Hall of Remembrance before laying a wreath on behalf of the Hellenic Republic.

During his visit to Yad Vashem, the Prime Minister of Greece, H. E. Mr. Alexis Tsipras, toured the Holocaust History Museum, participated in a memorial ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, visited the Children's Memorial and signed the Yad Vashem Guest Book.

At the conclusion of his visit, the Prime Minister called the Holocaust "a crucial milestone in modern history [...] the blackest mark on modern history for all of humanity. We must never forget the Holocaust, and never allow anyone, anywhere around the globe, to repeat what happened. It is our duty to resist the ideologies of hatred, xenophobia and racism."

In the Yad Vashem Guest Book, the Prime Minister wrote:

"We will never forget the faces of millions [of] people, women, men and children, murdered with cruelty and barbarism. Because human suffering anywhere concerns us all everywhere."