Fidesz MEP marks Holocaust Remembrance Day in Brussels

“Hatred and animosity cannot be a part of our life,” Lívia Járóka, MEP of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz, told a commemoration in Brussels late on Thursday.

The event, hosted by Járóka herself and Iván Tamás Kovács, Hungary’s ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg, was held at the Liszt Institute to mark the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

Referring to Jews and Roma that were found alive when the camp was liberated, Járóka said “to them this day was not only of liberation, it also meant that they would then mourn for decades their lost beloved, and carry on the horrendous memory of people discriminated, deported, and killed because of their skin colour or religion.”

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“It is a great honour for me that this day is not only marked by the Roma but by majority society, too, ” she said paying tribute to the victims of the Holocaust.