Lai Observes Holocaust Remembrance Day at Event in Taipei

TaiwanPlus News

Taiwan held an event to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday, with members of the Jewish community present as well as representatives of Israel and Germany. President Lai Ching-te spoke of the lessons learned from the atrocities of Taiwan's past.

Transcript

00:00Taiwan's President Lai Ching-ze and representatives from Israel and Germany are remembering Holocaust

00:05victims at a memorial event in Taipei held by the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy.

00:11This year's event falls on Yom HaShawa, or Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel, and attendees

00:16are paying their respects to the six million Jewish people that were killed under Nazi

00:20rule.

00:21At the ceremony, the descendant of one Holocaust survivor shared her grandmother's story.

00:25Representatives from Taiwan, Israel and Germany also lit candles to mark the occasion.

00:30Memorials like these meant to educate future generations about this tragic history.

00:35These stories deserve to be remembered and told, and they serve us as a reminder that the lessons

00:41of the past are never truly behind us.

00:45It was President Lai's first time attending the event, and he shared Taiwan's own human

00:48rights experience.

00:50The country saw one of the longest periods of martial law in history, known as the White

00:54Terror.

00:55Many countries, including Taiwan, have enacted anti-massacre legislation, and observe a Remembrance

01:07Day each year.

01:11Those occasions help us remember the victims, preserve historic memory, and most importantly, reinforce

01:21our resolve to fight against hatred and discrimination."

01:28Each year, Taiwan and its Jewish community come together to remember the atrocities committed

01:32during the Holocaust, and reflect on the continued struggle for human rights around the world.

01:38Kama Shree and Tiffany Wong in Taipei for Taiwan Plus.

01:40Kama Shree, began limpectcipates according to years ago, Mumbai as she spoke, and 23 miles everywhere.

01:44These occasions hadality at two stories in Mr. Oriol plataforma.

01:45Kama Shree andzumi illustration light bulb for

01:50Kama Shree and Diana Fukui.

01:51Once you have carried out while the impossibility to rebirth in his life, iyices Laduza.

01:52J wertida grace, it's a clear way of leading the interosse derechos.

01:54Kama Shree and Tiffany Wong, given sp hele últimos years together to occur in the

Category

Transcript

Be the first to comment

Recommended