A week of events to get to Holocaust Remembrance Day and remind everyone of the Shoah. An ancient pain that overlaps with the recent one of the October 7 attack, the hostages still in the hands of Hamas, a resurgence of anti-Semitic hatred and the accusation that Israel is carrying out genocide in Gaza, which has reached as far as The Hague. This makes this year's Remembrance Day a moment that goes beyond remembrance or the pages of history books. "Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the Holocaust, the genocide of the Holocaust and its victims. The words and the use that is made of them are important," Noemi Di Segni, president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, told ANSA. For Di Segni, "this and only this must be the focus of all of us on that day." With particular attention therefore to "the responsible use of words, first of all genocide", referring, precisely, to the accusations against Israel brought to The Hague by South Africa. The Chief Rabbi of Rome, Riccardo Di Segni, warned of the genocide: "A right is evoked in order to trample on other rights. And to do so, a colossal propaganda lie is constructed. This is what is happening at the International Court in The Hague, where Israel has been accused of genocide," he wrote in the online newspaper Shalom.
This year, January 27 falls on Shabbat and the Union of Italian Jewish Communities has planned several moments in 7 days to remember and honor the memory.
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