Officials, diplomats, religious leaders and representatives of the Jewish community in Argentina led today the unveiling of the statue of Anne Frank, the girl who wrote in a journal their experiences during the Holocaust in Holland before her assassination.
At the ceremony, held in the Dutch Queen Square neighborhood of Puerto Madero, was attended by Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Martin of Beij, Rabbi Abraham Soetendorp Countries, and the center's director Anne Frank, Héctor Shalom.
Also attended by Minister of Education, Alberto Sileoni, legislators and representatives of the cultural sphere and human rights.
The statue is a replica of the one in the city of Amsterdam, conducted by the artist Jet Schepp, who also attended the ceremony.
The Anne Frank Center Argentina is an independent organization responsible for preserving Back home, the place where 13 year old girl was hidden during World War II and wrote her diary. The organization aims to make people reflect on the dangers of anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination, and the importance of freedom, equal rights and democracy.
A SURVIVOR
Awraham Soetendorp, the famous survivor of the Shoah (Holocaust) Dutch rabbi said he would not be alive "if not by the power of compassion". Soetendorp told that if he could survive the Nazi death was due to a German woman who agreed to take over that Jew baby 3 months during the occupation, "someone of resistance" handed hidden in a suitcase.
"If she had said 'it is very dangerous', 'I have also hidden another Jewish girl and my neighbors left and right are members of the Fascist Party', or simply 'sorry, I have to close the door', the chances of that I am not standing here would be very large, and my fate would have been the same as Ann and another 1.5 million Jews were murdered babies, "he said.
This renowned human rights activist, honorary board member of the Anne Frank Foundation, also had special words for Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who had some of their representatives in the audience.
The site was made in the green space located in Pierina Dealessi and Carola Lorenzini, opposite the dock 5; an initiative of the Anne Frank of Argentina and the Embassy of the Netherlands, who then took the form of a bill passed by the Legislature of Buenos Aires.
PAIN AS A TEACHING
"Sometimes we were much different and we have to see how much we lose equal: we are neither more nor less than people, but also heirs and survivors," said Minister Sileoni.
Also said that "we are in the world and the other dead live on Argentina and the school also has to be transmitting from memory because dead victims, who remembers if not the constant work of other generations?".
"Ana left a diary, but there are others who left nothing, and if that horror is lost can replay" said the minister.
The sculpture simply read "Anne Frank, 1929-1945", but is expected to marble base includes the following: "In his 15 years he lived infinity of hope, his words stand for it and are a symbol of resistance. the Diary of Anne Frank inspire young people around the world build freedom. "
In turn, Buenos Aires Culture Minister Hernan Lombardi, said that "every city in the world should have a monument to Anne Frank" because it is a way of endorsing that "pain can teach us something."
The sculpture simply read "Anne Frank, 1929-1945", but is expected to marble base includes the following: "In his 15 years he lived infinity of hope, his words stand for it and are a symbol of resistance. the Diary of Anne Frank inspire young people around the world build freedom. "
In sculpture, the girl displayed Length, very erect, carrying a suitcase on each side and staring at the horizon.
"The monument is memory, is a tribute to the victims, is hope, a tribute to the strength, all in full humanity and inhumanity kept protected and made many can now tell their story," said Héctor Shalom, head of the Anne Frank House in Argentina.
The ceremony was also attended by the locals legislators Aníbal Ibarra and Maria Rachid, the owner of Inadi, Pedro Mouratian, judicial authorities and CS concerning the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and the CELS and different Dutch entities
WHO WAS ANNE FRANK
Anne Frank was a German Jewish girl and was known throughout the world by the Journal he wrote during the two and a half lived refugee from Nazi troops in the Dutch city of Amsterdam years.
After being captured, died of typhus in the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, a few days before it was released.
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