President of Malta Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca visited the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Center in Jerusalem. During her visit, the President also laid a wreath at the Hall of Remembrance. The wreath was laid on a stone slab under which the ashes of the Holocaust victims from the six extermination camps are buried. Addressing the media following the signing of the Visitor’s Book, President Coleiro Preca spoke about the importance of peace education stating that, “by educating new generations of children, young people, and educators, we can better the chances for our future generations to work for peace, and to live in a peaceful and respectful world, where each and every one of us is treated as a valuable collaborator”.
President Coleiro Preca said that our acknowledgement of the suffering which the Holocaust represents must be translated into a firm commitment to promote and to prioritise the dignity and the wellbeing of all people who are experiencing precarity, vulnerability, discrimination and abuse.
At Present, Yad Vashem has two Memoranda of Understanding in place with the Ministry for Education and Employment and with the President’s Foundation for the Wellbeing of Society. Through the MoU with the President’s Foundation, Yad Vashem representatives visit Malta every January to participate actively in the activities organised by the Foundation on the occasion of World Holocaust Remembrance Day, which also include school visits