On the occasion of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, the Pedreguer City Council calls for participation on Thursday, January 25 at 19:00 p.m. at La Pista Espai Cultural for the screening of the documentary Amado Granell, the Valencian who liberated Paris which will be attended by the director of the documentary, Juli Esteve.
This audiovisual piece narrates the life of Amado Granell, a Valencian soldier exiled in 1939 in French Algeria, where he enlisted, like many other republicans like him, in the Free French army and fought against Nazi Germany. These men formed La Nueve, the company that was precisely commissioned by General Leclerc to enter Paris on August 24, 1944, the day of liberation.
"In this way, we express our collective empathy and solidarity with the victims of the past, but we also recognize the current violations of human rights and we proclaim the need to guarantee them for all people and throughout the world," they have declared from the City Council of Pedreguer through a press release.
The solidarity councilor of the Pedreguer City Council, Ferran Lloret Morell, has stated that "the Memory of the Holocaust obliges us to continue with the defense of Human Rights. Commemorating this date in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust is an effective way to anticipate racism, genocides and protect Democracy and Human Rights. It is essential to remember that crimes against humanity have no expiration date. Thus, the Pedreguer City Council makes public the need to deepen Education, Memory and Research on the Holocaust, which, as UNESCO recognizes, is an essential task to promote the observation of Human Rights, fundamental freedoms and values. of tolerance and mutual respect.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 10, 1948, was an international response to the dramatic consequences of the Second World War for millions of people around the world. Among them, "the barbarism carried out by the Third Reich, violating the basic rights of millions of people and committing the most abject crimes with the purpose of exterminating the Jewish population and the rest of the stigmatized groups," they have indicated.
The Declaration is inspired by the oaths of Buchenwald and Mauthausen, in which survivors of Nazi camps reaffirmed their commitment to building a better world than the one they left behind. "They were aware of the price that their generation paid for their critical stance and activism against the Nazi-fascist regimes, and that awareness challenged them again to guarantee a future where Justice and Peace were assured for the following generations," they state in the notice.
In November 2005, the UN General Assembly established January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp, as the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust (IMVH). Both resolutions have objectives that complement and feed each other year after year.
The message proposed for this DIMVH commemoration is that of the "Fragility of Freedom." A fragility that "we see every day in the face of the terrible repercussion of war conflicts on the civilian population (Palestine and Ukraine as examples) or the systematic violation of human rights in different parts of the world", affecting various groups either by gender, political, religious, economic, environmental reasons, among others.
«Faced with this bleak panorama of human rights today, we cannot allow either complicit silence or contemplative melancholy. The duty of memory towards all the people who suffered that ignominy, so many decades ago, is also to vindicate the values of justice, international solidarity and peace for which they committed themselves giving everything they had, including their lives," they have concluded from l'Ajuntament.
Additionally, in the note they report the suspension of the activity that was scheduled for Wednesday, January 24, the presentation of the book by Fernando Rafael Mancebo Coloma, Did Bachmayer deceive the CIA? Caring for a nonagenarian Nazi, for personal reasons of the author.
