German Chancellor Angela Merkel emphatically urged the world to fight anti-Semitism and racism, saying each of us needs to adopt a “zero tolerance” of hatred.

More than 70 years after the Holocaust, she called for new ways to honor the memory of the millions of people the Nazis killed.

“People growing up today must know what people were capable of in the past, and we must work proactively to ensure that it is never repeated,” Merkel said in a video address in Berlin ahead of Sunday’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

“It will be crucial in the coming time to find new ways of remembrance,” she said. “We must look more closely at the personalities of people who were victims back then, and to tell their stories.”

Merkel expressed deep regret about ongoing anti-Semitism among Germans, as well as hatred of Jews among Muslim migrants and a hatred of Israel that she said could not be tolerated.

With Post Wires