BUDAPEST, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- The second international Holocaust Remembrance Day was observed in Budapest on Saturday, Hungary's news agency MTI reported.

    The official ceremony marking the 62nd anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in 1945 was held in the capital's Holocaust Memorial Center.

    In a written message, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany stressed the responsibility of people remembering the Holocaust today. "The fight against forgetting is nothing less than a permanent effort against suppression, exclusion, discrimination and tyranny," he said.

    The ceremony was attended by Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom, Constitutional Court President Zoltan Lomniczi and the ambassadors of Germany, Poland, the United States, Israel and Russia, who placed candles by the victims' memorial wall.

    The Hungarian Holocaust claimed 550,000 to 600,000 victims. Most of them died in concentration camps.

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