Commemoration 2024

2 August - European Holocaust Memorial Day for Roma and Sinti

International commemoration and wreath-laying ceremony

2 August 2024, 12:00 p.m. – Roma and Sinti Memorial in Birkenau, camp section B II e

Mr. Roman Kwiatkowski
Verband der Roma in Polen

Mr. Romani Rose
Zentralrat Deutscher Sinti und Roma

Ms. Alma Klasing
Überlebender des Holocaust

Mr. Bolesław Rumanowski
Überlebender des Holocaust

Ms. Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska
Marschallin des Senats der Republik Polen

Ms. Bärbel Bas
Präsidentin des Deutschen Bundestages

Mr. Theodoros Rousopoulos
President of the Parliamentary Assembly of
the Council of Europe

Mr. Dani Dayan
Chairman of Yad Vashem, the World
Holocaust Remembrance Centre

Mr. Antonio Guterres
Secretary-General of the United Nations
(video-message)

Commemorative Act of Parliamentary Representatives & Political Leaders | EHMDSR 2024

2 August 2024, 10:00 am – The International Center for Education about Auschwitz & the Holocaust

Dr. Piotr Cywinski
Director of the Memorial and Museum
Auschwitz-Birkenau

Mr. Marian Turski
Auschwitz survivor, member of the
International Auschwitz Council

Ms. Manuela Schwesig
Präsidentin des Bundesrates, Deutschland

Dr. Žygimantas Pavilionis
Deputy Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas
(Parliament), representative of the Lithuanian
Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of
the Council of Europe

Ms. Claudia Roth
State Minister for Culture and the Media of
Deutschland

Mr. Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski
Secretary of State, Polish Ministry of Foreign
Affairs

The Rt Hon Lord Pickles PC
Chair of the International Holocaust
Remembrance Alliance, UK Presidency

Ms. Tea Jaliashvili
First Deputy Director of the OSCE Office for
Democratic Institutions and Human Rights

2. August 2024 - Gedenkakt der parlamentarischen und politischen Repräsentant*innen, Auschwitz

2. August 2024 - Internationale Gedenkveranstaltung und Kranzniederlegung, Auschwitz-Birkenau

European Holocaust Memorial Day Booklet

Programm 2024