Our prayers and condolences go to those who lost their loved ones and their homes.

For decades Iraqi women have suffered from wars, sometimes losing their loved ones.

My mom is like millions of Iraqi women who lost their husbands, brothers, sons or other loved ones.

Let me also express our deep condolences to all those who suffered and who lost their loved ones.

The people of Belarus convey their sympathy and compassion to all the people who lost their loved ones in the killing waves.

Our hearts go out to those unfortunate Americans and citizens of other countries who lost everything, including loved ones, in the devastation that Hurricane Katrina has wrought.

That record adds even more ignominy to the sense of loss suffered by the loved ones of those who died or remain missing.

Today, 60 years after the end of the war, we mourn all of those men, women and children who, civilians and soldiers alike, lost their lives, their loved ones or their health as victims of Nazi Germany.