Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Monday underscored that International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism is an occasion to strongly condemn criminal ideologies that have caused fear and human suffering.

“Educating the young is key to building a society where there is no room for exclusiveness, intolerance and violence. #NeverAgain,” Plenkovic tweeted on his Twitter profile.

International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism is marked November 9 in memory of Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November Pogroms, which happened in the night between 9 and 10 November 1938 and which marked the start of extermination of the Jews. That night about 7,000 stores owned by Jews were looted or destroyed in Germany and Austria. Several Jewish cemeteries were desecrated and more than 1,500 synagogues were looted and demolished.

The “Kristallnacht” pogrom is seen as the symbolic beginning of the systematic eradication of Jewish people which had started with the discrimination and exclusion of the German Jews and resulted in the Holocaust in which six million Jews in Europe lost their lives.