BRUSSELS (EJP)---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, which will begin with 'El Maleh Rahamim', the Jewish memorial prayer, 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.
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| The European Jewish Community Center in Brussels said that thanks to its efforts from next year the annual Holocaust Memorial Day will be organized by the European Parliament as part of its official program. |
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.