“Tomorrow, we mark the 81^st anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. We remember and pay tribute to the six million Jewish women, men and children murdered in the Holocaust, as well as all the other innocent victims of the Nazi regime. These lives were brutally ended by an ideology of hatred but their memory shall endure as moral testament to humanity and as a permanent warning”, said the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day. “Three generations after the Shoah, Holocaust remembrance is increasingly important. Holocaust distortion is being used to divide us, to relativise crime and to fuel antisemitism. Let us be clear: nothing can ever justify distorting, minimising or instrumentalising one of the darkest chapters in Europe’s history”. Von der Leyen added: “We have witnessed a spike of antisemitic acts all over Europe, forcing many Jews to hide their identity and live in fear. This is unacceptable. There is no place and no justification for antisemitism”.