RESPONSIBILITY: The president urged Taiwanese as individuals and as a nation to reflect on ways to ensure that something like the Holocaust can never happen again
Taipei Times
Date: Feb 26, 2018
By: Chen Wei-han / Staff reporter
Taiwan remains committed to building a future based on human rights and justice while
President Tsai Ing-wen speaks at an event hosted by the Israeli and German trade offices in Taipei yesterday to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Photo: Chen Chih-chu, Taipei Times
removing hatred and discrimination, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said yesterday at an event to commemorate the Holocaust.
The event marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day was hosted by the Israel Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei and the German Institute Taipei.
Republic of China diplomat Ho Feng-shan (何鳳山), who served as consul-general in Vienna from 1938 to 1940, and is credited with helping save at least 2,000 Jews seeking to flee Nazi-annexed Austria by issuing them visas to Shanghai, was also commemorated.
Diplomats, dignitaries, artists, religious leaders and others attended the event at the National Central Library in Taipei. [FULL STORY]
