Advisor to HM the King Calls for Preserving Irreducible, Universal Memory of Holocaust

On Feb 2, 2023

Seville – “We are gathered at the Hassan II Pavilion in Seville so that each and every one of us can reaffirm his or her commitment to preserving and prolonging, over the course of generations, the irreducible, irrefragable and universal memory of the Holocaust,” said André Azoulay, Advisor to His Majesty the King and current President of the Foundation of the Three Cultures and the Three Religions.

Speaking at the Ceremony of Remembrance, which was held to commemorate International Holocaust Day as it has done annually, Azoulay emphasized “the importance of the Holocaust in the history of humanity.” Azoulay emphasized “the extraordinary political, social and spiritual consensus embodied by this ceremony which brought together, in the same emotion and same contemplation, the members of the Andalusian government, the President of the Andalusian Parliament, the leaders of the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities, and, for the first time, more than fifty students, sentinels, committed and attentive to ensure, over the generations, and without compromise”

In his historic message to the Community of Nations on March 18, 2009, HM King Mohammed VI stated that “His reading of the Holocaust is not that of amnesia but that of a memorial wound that We have inscribed in one of the most painful chapters in the Pantheon of Universal Heritage.” In welcoming his presence and the testimony of one of the last Holocaust survivors, Mr. Robert Wolfberg, HM the King’s Advisor, urged the audience to take the right measure of those words.

Andre Azoulay emphasized that after being spoken in the Islamic country, the Commander of the Faithful’s words “reverberate here and now in Seville to the Lights of Andalusia of all possibilities and tell everyone the ethical, moral, and political contours to which Morocco has chosen to identify its Word.”

“The Holocaust was the result of thousands of years of hatred and discrimination against the Jews, what we call today anti-Semitism,” said Antonio Sanz, Minister of the Presidency of the Andalusian Autonomous Government.

“Despite the fact that history is still being written, anti-Semitism persists. We must continue to be vigilant,” Sanz emphasized, adding that “society urgently needs organizations like the Three Cultures Foundation to carry on with determination in the areas of awareness and youth.

“The Andalusian leader stated, “We need to strengthen social cohesion so that people perceive diversity as an asset rather than a threat.

According to Jess Aguirre, President of the Andalusian Parliament, practicing memory is the best way to honor all those who perished as a result of Nazi cruelty during the Second World War. A people that forgets its history is doomed to repeat it.

”We all have the duty to denounce any form of violence for reasons of belief, ethnicity, ideologies or sexual condition. Let us never forget, let us not turn our backs on those who have had the strength to survive such cruel moments in history as the one suffered by the Jewish people,” added Aguirre.

“Today, we must work from education to prevent this situation from happening again in any corner of the world,” he concluded.

Ricardo Sánchez Antnez, the representative of the Andalusian government, Sidi Sidi Abbah, the Consul General of Morocco in Seville, Tomás Burgos, Noa Hakim, the spokeswoman for the Israeli Embassy in Madrid, Isaac Benzaquén, the director of the Centro Sefarad-Israel, Jaime Moreno, and the president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain were among the dignitaries present at the ceremony.