India, Nov. 8 -- Antonio Guterres was speaking at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York which was marking the 81st anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom carried out by the Nazi regime.

Scores of Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues were destroyed during "the Night of Broken Glass" on 9-10 November 1938.

For the UN chief, the commemoration was an opportunity not just to look back, but to recognize the need for continued vigilance.

Antisemitism persists decades after Holocaust

"Decades after the Holocaust, the world's oldest hatred is still with us", he remarked, before listing recent incidents across the world targeting Jews.

They ranged from the vandalization of Jewish graves and the defacement of a Holocaust memorial, to th...