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Dr. William Soto | SPEECH GIVEN AT THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
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Dr. William Soto | SPEECH GIVEN AT THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

To date, it has been the deadliest war in Latin America, considered by many historians to be the American genocide; however, it left us with the example of a noble and generous gesture from the government of Colombia, which offered citizenship to all the Paraguayans who entered its territory.

 

Something entirely different happened in 1939 when the St. Louis ship left Hamburg with about a thousand passengers—mostly refugee Jews fleeing Nazi persecution—and was not allowed to land in Cuba or the United States, instead being forced to return to Europe to deliver its passengers directly to the gas chambers.

Speech Given at the DAIA in Memory of the Victims of the Shoah
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Speech Given at the DAIA in Memory of the Victims of the Shoah

Although at first glance, Traces to Remember may seem to be focused on the Shoah and the testimony of the survivor, in reality, it is a project directed to the entire human race with the purpose of protecting the fundamental rights of every human being and seeing to it that each individual becomes an upholder of the life and dignity of every man, woman, and child who lives on this planet earth.

SPEECH GIVEN AT THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
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SPEECH GIVEN AT THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

On December 10, 1948 in Paris, the UN issued the Declaration of Human Rights as a result of the atrocities committed in World War II, and in particular due to the savagery of the Holocaust. The UN did so with the intention of turning that Declaration into a type of international law that would compel member tates to commit to recognize the minimum guarantees and basic rights of all people.