“The message that the fight against hatred and intolerance is permanent is more relevant than ever,” he says on the occasion of the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust, the president of SYRIZA-PS, Stefanos Kasselakis.

In his post on social media Mr. Kasselakis states: “Today, on the occasion of the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust and the Day of Remembrance of the Greek Jewish Martyrs and Heroes of the Holocaust, I am in Auschwitz. Here where 1.1 million souls were exterminated because they were Jews, political dissidents, Roma, homosexuals and generally “subhuman” according to the Nazis. Of these, 55,000 were Greek Jews. Here, human life ceased to have substance and value and became a number engraved on the skin. I saw the hair of women and little girls taken by the Nazis to use in textiles. Somewhere in between was a braid wrapped around a Greek penny. Here, as the famous author and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi wrote, the belief that ‘the stranger is the enemy’ was taken ‘intensely to its logical conclusion. As long as this perception survives, the prospect of this outcome will be there to threaten us.’ Today, 79 years after the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army, the message that the fight against hatred and intolerance is ongoing is more relevant than ever. From America to Europe, our country and the wider region, we see the darkness spreading. Peace, Democracy, Human Rights are not just legacies of older generations, but a daily struggle, which cannot be discounted. The inscription on the memorial at Auschwitz shouts it out loud: ‘Let it be for centuries a cry of despair and a warning to humanity.’ Never again”.