27/01/2019: January 27th, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Minister of Foreign Affairs wrote to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Costantini Picardi, wrote an official letter to the Israeli Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu to demonstrate the closeness of the Templar people to the Jewish people on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

In the letter Minister Costantini Picardi announces that the Templar Nation recognizes the day 27 January “Holocaust Remembrance Day”.

Also in the letter, Minister Costantini Picardi reminds the Israeli Prime Minister that even the Templar people has known a few centuries ago the torment of extermination and the attempt to damnatio memoriae over the centuries and for this understands the tragic events of the Shoah.

The letter closes with the renewal of friendship between the Templar Nation and Israel.

January 27th was designated as “Holocaust Remembrance Day” by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 60/7 on 1 November 2005, during the 42nd plenary session.

It was decided to celebrate the Day of Remembrance every January 27 because on that day in 1945 the Red Army troops, engaged in the offensive Vistula-Oder in the direction of Germany, freed the Auschwitz concentration camp.