International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates every year the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp (27 January 1945), will be marked next Tuesday in the European Parliament in Brussels during a special event.
This event is co-organized by the European Jewish Congress (EJC) and several organizations including B’nai B’rith, the European Council of Jewish Communities, the Conference of European Rabbis, the European Jewish Community Center and European Coalition for Israel.
The new President of the European Parliament, German Martin Schulz will make the opening remarks at this event which will also be attended by Israel’s Minister for Public Diplomacy and Diaspora, Yuli Edelstein, Gabriel Bach, who was prosecutor in the Adolf Eichmann trial, Holocaust survivors, Rigtheous Among the Nations, as well as EU officials and ambassadors.