Members of the Civil Defence rescue children after what activists said was an air strike by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in al-Shaar neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria June 2, 2014. (photo credit:REUTERS)
Shalev was speaking at the opening of the International Institute for Holocaust Research’s conference titled “The Jewish Refugee Problem During the Shoah (1933-1945) Reconsidered.”
World leaders and the global community must implement in Syria the principles they enacted after World War II, the chairman of Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, Avner Shalev, said Sunday at a conference in Jerusalem.
“Over recent days and weeks, the world has seen evidence of renewed carnage in Syria,” Shalev stated, expressing “deep concern over the appalling images of massacres of human beings from this turbulent area.”
He stressed the relevance now of steps taken by the global community after the Holocaust, including the foundation of international organizations “with the express purpose of averting future crimes against humanity.” He added that international efforts must be made to provide humanitarian assistance to Syrian refugees.
Shalev was speaking at the opening of the International Institute for Holocaust Research’s conference titled “The Jewish Refugee Problem During the Shoah (1933-1945) Reconsidered.”
Shalev was speaking at the opening of the International Institute for Holocaust Research’s conference titled “The Jewish Refugee Problem During the Shoah (1933-1945) Reconsidered.”
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