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Comments on 'Spurious' Holocaust Conference in Tehran
Tuesday 19 December 2006
On the eve of his pilgrimage to Bethlehem with other English Church leaders, the Archbishop of Canterbury commented on the Holocaust Conference which took place a week earlier in Teheran
He said
"Last week I was very honoured to attend a dinner in honour of Professor Elie Wiesel given by the Yad Vashem Foundation UK to mark the award to him of an honorary knighthood by the Queen. This was to honour in the most marked way, his services over so many years to Holocaust education."
He continued:
"Here is a Holocaust survivor whose life has been devoted to ensuring that the knowledge of that greatest of crimes will never be forgotten. In his very life as a survivor, as well as in his life's work he stands as a reproach to all who are tempted to question the stark realities of the Nazi era or to doubt that they could recur."
"It is shameful that in the same week, people whose lives have been wasted in denying the existence of the Holocaust, should have been drawn to an event which seeks under the guise of freedom of speech, to give spurious respectability to their pretensions."
In January this year, on the occasion of the National Holocaust Memorial Day, the Archbishop said:
"It is essential for each generation to be able to enter into the terrible events of the Holocaust at the level of knowledge and of feeling.... While it is true that human history has been stained by other genocides, including those of our own generation, the events of the Nazi era stand alone in their nature and causes."
In relation to the pilgrimage, he said:
"We shall be making our pilgrimage to the place of Christ's birth, a place of hope. I am conscious that in the place of Christ's crucifixion, there is the record of six million deaths at Yad Vashem. I shall hold both Bethlehem and Jerusalem in my prayers."