Promoting a tolerance culture to combat racism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, hate speech and other forms of intolerance, the Holocaust, distorting realities, knowing and assuming the past, including tragic periods and emphasizing the way of not repeating them, are among the topics covered in the event organized on Thursday, January 27, 2022, by the National Institute of Justice during Holocaust Remembrance Week.
Alexei Tulbure, Director of the Institute of Oral History, former permanent representative of Moldova to the United Nations and the Council of Europe, former Member of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova, was the special guest of discussions with the NIJ trainees. He spoke about the hard lesson of the Holocaust and the importance of the confessions of witnesses to the tragic events in the process of education of younger generation in the spirit of European values. At the same time, it was emphasized that the protection of human rights and the resistance to any attempt at discrimination and social exclusion is vital.
During the activity, there was an exchange of views based on the short film "Holocaust by bullets" about the massacres in Moldova, a production made by Romanian journalists in memory of those who went through the atrocities of the twentieth century.
Every year, on January 27, is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The National Institute of Justice, responsible for the judicial training of professionals in the justice sector, including the human rights dimension, joined the events dedicated to Holocaust Remembrance Week, initiated by the Government of the Republic of Moldova.
