It is probably already a well-known thing, but let us remember that the date is symbolic – on January 27, 1945, the Auschwitz concentration camp, infamous by its Nazi name Auschwitz, was liberated.

Gradually, other concentration and extermination camps were liberated both in the east and west of Europe. But the camp at Auschwitz was the first, so many international and national institutions agreed on this date, including the Czech Republic, which signed up for this anniversary in 2000.Je certainly important that we commemorate this day. At the same time, however, a number of questions arise: is it enough to stop like this just once – or perhaps several times – a year, to reflect on causes and effects and their significance for today? I don't think so. It is necessary to keep this memento, however drastic, always in mind and to follow it in everyday life, whether public or private. Where does hatred, which is essentially irrational, lead? And what can – at first inconspicuously – trigger the machinery of evil that ends in the gas chambers? Can such a tragedy be avoided if everyone follows the principles of morality, whose code of ethics is embodied in the simplest possible form in the Old Testament Ten Commandments?