GENEVA, Switzerland — The United Nations rights chief called Monday for the world to learn the hard lessons provided by the Holocaust and reject hatred and dehumanization “to safeguard our future.”

In a statement issued ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk insisted that the dark history offered “striking lessons” for the world today.

“It is difficult to fathom that within living memory, a group of deluded killers inflicted unspeakable atrocities on millions of Jews and members of other minorities,” he said.

The Nazi regime during World War II “persecuted them, stripped them of dignity, and ultimately murdered them with the horrific efficiency of an assembly line,” he said. “Systematically, openly, and without consequences.”

Türk stressed that the “the appalling cruelty was not born in........

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