G. Landsbergis: Yad Vashem is a hopeful testimony that even in the darkest times, there will always be people who will choose the light
Today, the Minister of Foreign Affairs visited Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel and paid tribute to the memory of the Holocaust victims and the Righteous of the World, including more than 900 Lithuanian people who saved thousands of Lithuanian Jews.
"I am grateful for the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem and bow my head to the millions of victims of the Holocaust - the greatest tragedy of the last century. Unfortunately, some of them were brutally murdered in Lithuania. However, this place is also a hopeful testimony that even in the darkest times, there will always be people who will choose the light, regardless of any circumstances", said G. Landsbergis after visiting the Yad Vashem centre.
"I do hope that Holocaust was the last lesson that humanity needed to never again become hostage of evil intents, and witness of murders and crimes against humanity", noted the chief of Lithuanian diplomacy.
The title of Righteous Among the Nations is the highest award that the State of Israel can bestow on people for their contributions to humanism.
Almost 28 thousand people from 51 countries have received this honourable name.
Ona Jablonskyte-Landsbergienė, the minister's great-grandmother, who gave refuge to Bela Gurvičiūtė-Rozenberg and Sulamita Vilenčiukaitė, is among those more than 900 Lithuanian people who received this honourable award.
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