“On January 27, 1945, brave soldiers of the Red Army entered the barbed wire of the territory of the concentration camp. They did not know at that moment that they were walking along the ashes of a huge mass grave, where more than a million people died, ”TASS quotes Macron.
He emphasized the need to “remember the past, remember all the victims of the Holocaust in order to build the present” and “constantly tell new generations.”
Macron said that "returning anti-Semitism is not the problem of the Jews, it is a problem for all of us, we cannot put up with racism, the denial of the crimes of the Nazis, an encroachment on the historical heritage and ideals."
Earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with Israeli leader Reuven Rivlin, recalled that anti-Semitism ends with Auschwitz and called on to resist any manifestations of xenophobia and anti-Semitism in the world.