The UN has passed a resolution aimed at combating Holocaust denial and is calling on member states and social media firms to help fight anti-Semitism.
The resolution, tabled by Israel and Germany, was adopted without a vote by the 193-member General Assembly.
The move sends "a strong message ... against denying or distorting these historical facts," the UN said.
Six million Jews died in the Holocaust – Nazi Germany's campaign to wipe out Europe's Jewish population.
On Thursday, the UN General Assembly said it "rejects and condemns without reservation any denial of the Holocaust as a historical event, whether in whole or in part".
"Ignoring historical facts increases the risk that they will be repeated," said German UN Ambassador Antje Leendertse.
The text praises nations that preserve sites that once served as Nazi death camps and concentration camps and calls on member states to provide Holocaust education programs.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and her Israeli counterpart, Yair Lapid, said in a joint statement that they were concerned by a recent dramatic increase in Holocaust denial.
The resolution lists Holocaust distortion or denial as:
Deliberate attempts to justify or minimize the impact of the Holocaust or its main elements, including collaborators and allies of Nazi Germany Gross minimization of the number of victims of the Holocaust contrary to reliable sources Attempts to blame the Jews for causing their genocide .
Statements presenting the Holocaust as a positive historical event Attempts to obscure responsibility for the establishment of concentration and death camps created and operated by Nazi Germany by blaming other nations or ethnic groups While the resolution was adopted by the UN General Assembly- Iran - a member of the organization - said it was distancing itself from the text.
When the Nazis came to power in 1933, they began to strip the Jews of all property, freedom, and rights under the law. In 1939 they began deporting Jews to newly occupied Poland, and in 1941 Nazi forces were ordered to systematically kill the Jews of Europe.
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