Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday opened a new Holocaust exhibition at the former Auschwitz death camp, vowing Israel would do everything to prevent another genocide of the Jewish people.
Sixty-five years on, "the only thing that has truly changed is our ability and our determination to operate in order to defend ourselves and to prevent another Holocaust," he said.
Netanyahu's comments came a day after he accused Tehran of planning another Holocaust, by developing nuclear weapons with the aim of destroying Israel.
"This is a regime that is building nuclear weapons to annihilate Israel's six million Jews," he said following talks with Polish counterpart Donald Tusk in Warsaw on Wednesday.
Israel "will not allow this to happen. We will never allow another Holocaust."
While saying that Israel should be eliminated, Tehran insists that its nuclear facilities are for peaceful purposes.
On Thursday, Netanyahu also accused the Allies of failing to act over the Nazi death camps.
They "understood full well what was happening in the death camps. They were requested to act, they could act, but they didn't," he said.
Netanyahu spoke after touring the new exhibition that was curated by Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust institute and features powerful visuals which put the killings at Auschwitz into the larger context of the Holocaust.
The Israeli leader previously visited the former Nazi camp -- now a memorial and museum run by Poland -- in 2010 for the 65th anniversary of its liberation by Soviet troops.
Sixty-five years on, "the only thing that has truly changed is our ability and our determination to operate in order to defend ourselves and to prevent another Holocaust," he said.
Netanyahu's comments came a day after he accused Tehran of planning another Holocaust, by developing nuclear weapons with the aim of destroying Israel.
"This is a regime that is building nuclear weapons to annihilate Israel's six million Jews," he said following talks with Polish counterpart Donald Tusk in Warsaw on Wednesday.
Israel "will not allow this to happen. We will never allow another Holocaust."
While saying that Israel should be eliminated, Tehran insists that its nuclear facilities are for peaceful purposes.
On Thursday, Netanyahu also accused the Allies of failing to act over the Nazi death camps.
They "understood full well what was happening in the death camps. They were requested to act, they could act, but they didn't," he said.
Netanyahu spoke after touring the new exhibition that was curated by Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust institute and features powerful visuals which put the killings at Auschwitz into the larger context of the Holocaust.
The Israeli leader previously visited the former Nazi camp -- now a memorial and museum run by Poland -- in 2010 for the 65th anniversary of its liberation by Soviet troops.
