We also believe that forgetting the Holocaust would be a crime, and not making it known to new generations would make us accomplices of those who deny it. For that reason, the Global Embassy of Activists for Peace also presented the government of Paraguay with a proposal to learn the lessons of this terrible chapter in history, which gave rise to the issuing of Resolution 684 by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the country on February 20, 2013, declaring the project Traces to Remember of educational interest.
The Engelberg family commemorative was inaugurated and unveiled at Guatemala’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Global Embassy of Activists for Peace and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted the event.
President Franco expressed his support for the project and stressed the importance of encouraging youth, schools and universities to raise awareness about past genocides and teach the importance of respect for human beings regardless of culture, belief or nationality.
To date, it has been the deadliest war in Latin America, considered by many historians to be the American genocide; however, it left us with the example of a noble and generous gesture from the government of Colombia, which offered citizenship to all the Paraguayans who entered its territory.
Something entirely different happened in 1939 when the St. Louis ship left Hamburg with about a thousand passengers—mostly refugee Jews fleeing Nazi persecution—and was not allowed to land in Cuba or the United States, instead being forced to return to Europe to deliver its passengers directly to the gas chambers.
Although at first glance, Traces to Remember may seem to be focused on the Shoahand the testimony of the survivor, in reality, it is a project directed to the entire human race with the purpose of protecting the fundamental rights of every human being and seeing to it that each individual becomes an upholder of the life and dignity of every man, woman, and child who lives on this planet earth.
In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Global Embassy of Activists for Peace presented the project Traces to Remember to the Delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations, (DAIA for it's acronym in spanish) with the support of the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary.
In observance of the International Day in Commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust, the event began with a moment of silence, in accordance with United Nations Resolution 60/7 which urges State Members to implement programs to remember the lessons that this stage in history left for humanity.
