Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar participated on Wednesday at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony dedicated to the memory of foreign diplomats who helped save Jews during the Holocaust.

The ceremony took place next to the wall honoring the Righteous Among the Nations diplomats at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem. The names of 49 diplomats who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust are commemorated on the wall.

Over 80 ambassadors and heads of foreign missions attended the ceremony, including Swiss Ambassador to Israel Simon Geissbühler, who delivered remarks in memory of Carl Lutz, a Swiss diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar: We are determined to preserve the Jewish state in our historic homeland forever. To maintain its protective force—the Israel Defense Forces. And to preserve the capabilities that, so tragically and desperately, our people lacked in the 1940s.

We know, and the whole world knows (even if it does not draw the necessary conclusions), that many around us today seek our elimination.

Not to harm us.

To eliminate us.

And it is not that they are only dreaming of it.

They are planning it. They are taking action to execute it.

But we have sworn—Never again!

This oath will not be broken.

We will remember our murdered brothers and sisters.

We will pass on the memory and its lessons to our sons and daughters.

We will uphold our vow: Never again!

Image - FM Sa'ar