The International Day of Commemoration, in memory of victims of the holocaust, was held in Accra under the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme.

UN Resident Coordinator, Ruby Sandhu Rojon, in a message read on her behalf of UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, said acts of bravery by some people to save holocaust victims, were highly commendable in the face of unthinkable evil.

She said such acts, showed how people could be brave in the face of danger and in their quest to rescue others from harm.

Mr Eyal Lampert, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of the State of Israel, said the holocaust was not only something that happened to the Jews, but could easily happen again.

He said Jews fell victim to propaganda, which made it appear that they were inferior human beings, who deserved less respect than others.

Mr Lampert stressed that a similar situation happened in Rwanda, where members of a particular ethnic group were targeted for extermination by others, because they had been made to appear inferior and unwanted.

He said there was the need to guard against situations, where individuals or groups, perceived themselves as being superior to others, whatever the reason might be.

Mr Lampert said so long as anyone felt another or others were inferior, there was the tendency for extreme acts of disrespect.

The UN highlights an aspect of the holocaust every year, in remembrance of the State organised persecution and murder of about six million Jews by the Nazi regime of Germany.