UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the Nazis tried to "steal" the names of millions of Jews before killing them in World War II, but at the inauguration of a UN installation bearing the names of 4,8 million Holocaust victims, he said they failed in this and that those killed "will never be forgotten".

Last night, before the International Day of remembrance of the Holocaust, he said the exhibition calls for action as millions of victims remain unidentified, and also calls on the world "to stem the tide of human cruelty and fight anti-Semitism and all forms of racism wherever and whenever it manifests itself."

The large installation "The Book of Names of the Victims of the Holocaust" has been brought to the UN headquarters in New York from Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, reports AP.

It is two meters tall, and the names of the 4,8 million victims are written on the pages in alphabetical order, identified by Yad Vashem so far.

Some pages at the end are blank and symbolize the more than a million murdered Jews who have not yet been identified.

Because they lost their names, they lost their lives, but millions of their names have been collected and their memory lives on, Guterres said.

The day the Red Army liberated Auschwitz