Vienna 6 May. This Sunday, the Cuban Embassy in Austria and Austrian friends of solidarity paid a solemn tribute to the Cubans murdered in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp during the Second World War.
The act of remembrance took place in front of the memorial plaque commemorating the Cuban International Brigaders and a wreath was laid in homage to their memory.
In his speech, the Cuban Ambassador, Pablo Berti Oliva, remembered the victims of fascism, especially the five Cubans who perished in Mauthausen, and called for continued vigilance in the face of growing practices that promote hatred and discrimination.
‘We must combat and prevent, through our actions, neo-Nazism, neo-Fascism and other violent nationalist ideologies based on racial or national prejudices from taking hold on the international political scene,’ argued the Permanent Representative of Cuba to the International Organisations based in Vienna.
For his part, Hermann Pernerstorfer, President of the Austria-Cuba Friendship Association (ÖKG) highlighted the values of solidarity of the Cuban internationalists who participated in the Spanish Civil War, who represent the values that identify Cuba and its people today.
The event was also attended by members of the Austrian Workers' Party (PdA) and the Austrian Communist Youth, who have expressed their support for the promotion of solidarity towards Cuba, its history and the struggle against the blockade.
Every year, a representation of Cuba and Austrians in solidarity remember the Cuban brigadistas and take part in the central parade at the former Mauthausen Concentration Camp, liberated on 2 May 1945.
(EmbaCubaAustria)
